Written by internationally-acclaimed trainer and developer Scott Ambler, this book is a must-have resource for designers, programmers and testers of today's OO applications. The author takes you through the entire process of building object applications, from analyzing the project, to designing a user-friendly interface, to testing your approaches to make sure your applications work properly. Building Object Applications That Work includes sections on: how to use the Unified Modeling Language effectively; analysis, so you know what you need to build; design techniques, so that you know how you are going to build your application; collecting the right metrics to improve your development approach; applying OO patterns to improve the quality of your applications; creating applications for stand-alone, client/server and distributed environments; using both relational and object-oriented databases to make your objects persistent; and architecting your applications so they are maintainable and extensible.
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"...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
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This book is a must-have resource for designers, programmers and testers of today's OO applications. It reviews the entire process of building object applications from analyzing the project, to designing a user-friendly interface, to testing your approaches to make sure your applications work properly.
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A good but flawed overview,
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This review is from: Building Object Applications that Work: Your Step-by-Step Handbook for Developing Robust Systems with Object Technology (SIGS: Managing Object Technology) (Paperback)
Ambler's book contains a great deal of helpful information about the entire process of object-oriented software development, much of which I will put to good use. But the typography of the sidebars (definitions and tips) is unreadable, figures are often amateurish in appearance and sometimes superfluous, the information on Java is outdated, and the author's bias toward Smalltalk (almost all of the examples are written in it) is somewhat annoying.
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Good Reference for transition from OOP to OOA/OOD,
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This review is from: Building Object Applications that Work: Your Step-by-Step Handbook for Developing Robust Systems with Object Technology (SIGS: Managing Object Technology) (Paperback)
This is good book book for someone that already does some object oriented programming and would like to learn the whole OO process. The author does a good job but the graphics came out pretty horrible, you can barely read them.
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Best so far...,
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This review is from: Building Object Applications that Work: Your Step-by-Step Handbook for Developing Robust Systems with Object Technology (SIGS: Managing Object Technology) (Paperback)
Lots of books give lots of theory, but this book really tells you how to do it. He makes sense. His approach is practical and his implementation explanations are useable.
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object normal form, class diagramming, subsystem contracts, class normalization, persistence layer, contact point type, teller application, master test plan, persistence classes, lazy initialization, class responsibility collaborator, accessor methods, persistence mechanism, coverage testing, interface classes, scenario testing, getter method, self balance, path testing, customer objects, data entities, ignored methods, class testing, mapping objects, data entity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Object Primer, New York, Englewood Cliffs, Item-Item Description, Roles Played, Area Report, The Application Developer's Guide, Law of Demeter, Prentice Hall, Unified Modeling Language, Common Object Request Broker Architecture, References Ambler, Flat File Map, Microsoft Press, Page Jones, The Shipping New!
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The Object Primer, New York, Englewood Cliffs, Item-Item Description, Roles Played, Area Report, The Application Developer's Guide, Law of Demeter, Prentice Hall, Unified Modeling Language, Common Object Request Broker Architecture, References Ambler, Flat File Map, Microsoft Press, Page Jones, The Shipping New!
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- The Object Primer: The Application Developer's Guide to Object Orientation and the UML by Scott W. Ambler on 16 pages
- Object-Oriented Software Metrics by Mark Lorenz on page 173, and page 195
- Designing Object-Oriented Software by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock on page 46, and page 150
- Code Complete (Microsoft Programming Series) by Steve McConnell on page 259, and page 416
- The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design by Brenda Laurel on page 290
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- Process Patterns: Building Large-Scale Systems Using Object Technology (SIGS: Managing Object Technology) by Scott W. Ambler on 16 pages
- The Object Primer: The Application Developer's Guide to Object Orientation and the UML by Scott W. Ambler on 12 pages
- More Process Patterns: Delivering Large-Scale Systems Using Object Technology (SIGS: Managing Object Technology) by Scott W. Ambler on 9 pages
- The Unified Process Elaboration Phase: Best Practices in Implementing the UP by Scott W. Ambler on page 145, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Unified Process Construction Phase: Best Practices in Implementing the UP by Scott W. Ambler on page 114, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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