Building Object Applications that Work

• Part I. Introduction to Building Object Applications: 1. Where we've been before - object-oriented concepts and techniques; Part II. Object-Oriented Analysis Design, and Architecture: 2. Bubbles and lines - useful diagrams for object-oriented analysis and design; 3. Improving your design - a class-type architecture; 4. Reusing your development efforts - object-oriented patterns; 5. Development in the 90s and beyond - designing distributed object-oriented applications; Part III. Object-Oriented Construction: 6. Measuring and improving the quality of your work - object-oriented metrics; 7. Choosing an object-oriented language - comparing the leading languages; 8. Building your application - effective object-oriented construction techniques; 9. Making your application usable - object-oriented user interface design; 10. Making your objects persistent - object-orientation and databases; 11. Integrating legacy code - wrapping; Part IV. Object-oriented Testing: 12. Making sure your applications work - full life-cycle object-oriented testing (FLOOT); Part V. Conclusion: 13. Where to go from here - personal success strategies; Appendix A. Notation summary; Appendix B. Visual glossary.

"...Scott Ambler's book delivers exactly what it promises- a robust look into building object applications. This is no small feat given the wide range of object-oriented development. Ambler's willingness to depart from a UML-only viewpoint and to advocate practical techniques like CRC modeling or data modeling provides a bridge from classic CASE methods to object-oriented design, It also has the strong feel of practical object-oriented application building experience. Its common thrust is an elaboration of theory into usable practices for developing robust object-oriented systems." Software Development