Rapid Software Development with Smalltalk (SIGS: Advances in Object Technology) [Paperback]

Mark Lorenz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 13, 1998 | Series: SIGS: Advances in Object Technology (Book 7)

Rapid Software Development with Smalltalk is designed to help the professional software developer write Smalltalk code faster without sacrificing software quality. The book covers the spectrum of OO analysis, design, and implementation techniques and provides a proven process for architecting large software systems. By using detailed examples of an extended Responsibility-Driven Design (RDD) methodology and Smalltalk, readers will find techniques derived from real OO projects that are directly applicable to ongoing projects of any size. By providing proven techniques and tips derived from years of hands-on implementation experience on projects large and small from around the world, the author is able to give readers specific guidelines that could dramatically cut costs and keep projects on schedule. Specifically, the author provides readers with project patterns that work, illustrations of design patterns, OO metrics with example code to test design quality, and, of course, numerous Smalltalk code examples.

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'Your investment in Smalltalk will be safeguarded by following the advice in this book about what risks to take, how to manage the risks, and how to help your team be as productive as possible in the meantime. Mark's years of Smalltalk experience show through in the big bag of practical, detailed suggestions he offers here.' Kent Beck, from the Foreword

Book Description

This book helps professional software developers write Smalltalk code faster without sacrificing software quality. By using detailed examples of an extended Responsibility-Driven Design methodology and Smalltalk, readers will find techniques derived from real OO projects that are directly applicable to ongoing projects of any size.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (January 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0134497376
• ISBN-13: 978-0134497372
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,801,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars simple and fast way to be productive, July 21, 1999

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This review is from: Rapid Software Development with Smalltalk (SIGS: Advances in Object Technology) (Paperback)

Having read the UML books, full of special notations and characters to cover all the possible modeling combinations, it is refreshing to find in this smallish book a simple and yet productive right-to-the-matter guidance to start analyzing a business process to model in a software application.