the authors´ underlying approach to analysis and design is new and inventive. Their OOA&D method offers two simple frameworks: the first gives readers insight into the computerized system, and the second focuses on the system´s context. These two frameworks are used throughout the book, resulting in a simple, coherent presentation.
Nonetheless, this is not a book of recipes to be slavishly followed. The authors´ approach is pedagogical. The book´s structure, concepts, guidelines and examples are designed to help the reader understand analysis and design practices, and to reflect critically upon them. The book is suitable for a university course in system development. It can also offer practitioners a framework for implementing new working practices in analysis and design.
The book offers a complete guide to object-oriented analysis and design. It includes guidelines for designing high-quality user interfaces and a repertoire of patterns that can inspire designs for specific solutions. The book also offers exercises and problems, and references to state-of-the-art literature on system development.