A Student Guide to Object-Oriented Development

Table of contents

1. Cover image
2. Title page
3. Table of Contents
4. Copyright
5. Preface and acknowledgements
6. Chapter 1: Introduction
   1. How to get the best from this book
   2. The system life cycle
   3. Traditional life cycle models
   4. The object-oriented approach
   5. The Rational Unified Process (RUP)
   6. The Unified Modelling Language (UML)
   7. UML models
   8. Introduction to the case study
   9. Chapter summary
   10. Quick check questions
7. Chapter 2: Requirements for the Wheels case study system
   1. Introduction
   2. Requirements engineering
   3. Requirements elicitation
   4. List of requirements for the Wheels system
   5. Chapter summary
   6. Quick check questions
   7. Exercises
8. Chapter 3: Use cases
   1. Introduction
   2. Use case diagram
   3. The use case
   4. Use case descriptions
   5. Actors and actor descriptions
   6. Use case relationships: communication association, include and extend
   7. Boundary
   8. Using the use case model in system development
   9. Technical points
   10. Common problems
   11. Chapter summary
   12. Quick check questions
   13. Exercises
9. Chapter 4: Objects and classes: the basic concepts
   1. Introduction
   2. Why a new development method was needed
   3. What is an object?
   4. What is a class?
   5. Relationships between classes
   6. Technical points
   7. Common problems
   8. Chapter summary
   9. Quick check questions
   10. Exercises
10. Chapter 5: The class diagram
    1. Introduction
    2. Stages in building a class diagram
    3. Packages
    4. Using the class diagram in system development
    5. Common problems
    6. Chapter summary
    7. Quick check questions
    8. Exercises
11. Chapter 6: Identifying functionality: CRC cards and interaction diagrams
    1. Introduction
    2. Identifying operations using the CRC card technique
    3. Interaction diagrams
    4. Specifying operations
    5. Using the CRC cards and interaction diagrams in system development
    6. Technical points
    7. Common problems
    8. Chapter summary
    9. Quick check questions
    10. Exercises
12. Chapter 7: State Diagrams
    1. Introduction
    2. States and events
    3. An example of a simple state diagram
    4. Constructing a state diagram
    5. An example from the Wheels case study
    6. Using state diagrams in system development
    7. Technical points
    8. Common problems
    9. Chapter summary
    10. Quick check questions
    11. Exercises
13. Chapter 8: Activity diagrams
    1. Introduction
    2. Modelling a sequence of activities
    3. Modelling alternative courses of action
    4. Modelling iteration of activities
    5. Modelling activities that are carried out in parallel
    6. Swimlanes
    7. Technical points
    8. Common problems
    9. Chapter summary
    10. Quick check questions
    11. Exercises
14. Chapter 9: Design
    1. Introduction
    2. Architecture
    3. Implementation diagrams
    4. The user interface
    5. Dealing with persistent data
    6. Technical points
    7. Chapter summary
    8. Quick check questions
    9. Exercises
15. Chapter 10: Designing objects and classes
    1. Introduction
    2. The class diagram
    3. Interaction diagrams
    4. Chapter summary
    5. Quick check questions
    6. Exercises
16. Chapter 11: The code
    1. Introduction
    2. The implementation class diagram
    3. The code
    4. Sequence diagram
    5. Chapter summary
    6. Quick check questions
    7. Exercises
17. Material for the Wheels bike hire case study
18. Introductory material for a new case study
19. Bibliography
20. Glossary
21. Answers
22. Index