How can software developers, programmers and managers meet the challenges of the 90s and begin to resolve the software crisis? This book is based on Objectory which is the first commercially available comprehensive object-oriented process for developing large-scale industrial systems. Ivar Jacobson developed Objectory as a result of 20 years of experience building real software-based products. The approach takes a global view of system development and focuses on minimizing the system's life cycle cost. Objectory is an extensible industrial process that provides a method for building large industrial systems. This revised printing has been completely updated to make it as accessible and complete as possible. New material includes the revised Testing chapter, in which new product developments are discussed.

Table of Contents:
Part 1. Introduction 1. System development as an industrial process Introduction A useful analogy System development characteristics Summary 2. The system life cycle Introduction System development as a process of change System development and reuse System development and methodology Objectory Summary 3. What is object-orientation? Introduction Object Class andinstance Polymorphism Inheritance Summary 4. Object-oriented system development Introduction Function/data methods Object-oriented analysis Object-oriented construction Object-oriented testing Summary 5. Object-oriented programming Introduction Objects Classes and instances Inheritance Polymorphism An example Summary Part II. Concepts 6. Architecture Introduction System development is model building Model architecture Requirements model Analysis model The design model The implementation model Test model Summary 7. Analysis Introduction The requirements model The analysis model Summary 8. Construction Introduction The design model Block design Working with construction Summary 9. Real-time specialization Introduction Classification of real-time systems Fundamental issues Analysis Construction Testing and verification Summary 10. Database Specialization Introduction Relational DBMS Object DBMS Discussion Summary 11. Components Introduction What is a component? Use of components Component management Summary 12. Testing Introduction On testing Unit testing Integration testing System testing The testing process Summary Part III. Applications 13. Case study: warehouse management system Introduction to the examples ACME Warehouse Management Inc. The requirements model The analysis model Construction 14. Case study: telecom Introduction Telecommunication switching systems The requirements model The analysis model The design model The implementation model 15. Managing object-oriented software engineering Introduction Project selection and preparation Project development organization Project organization and management Project staffing Software quality assurance Software metrics Summary 16. Other object-oriented methods Introduction A summary of object-oriented methods Object-Oriented Analysis (OOAD/Coad-Yourdon) Object-Oriented Design (OOD/Booch) Hierarchical Object-Oriented Design (HOOD) Object Modeling Technique (OMT) Responsibility-Driven Design Summary Appendix A On the development of Objectory Introduction Objectory as an activity From idea to reality References Index