Object Oriented System Design

Overview of Object basics. The software development process, building high quality software, Object oriented system development life cycle: a use case driven approach- Object oriented Analysis, Object-oriented Design, Prototyping, Implementation: Component based development and Rapid application development, Incremental Testing. Reusability. Object oriented Methodologies- Rumbaugh et al.’s object modelling technique, The Booch methodology, The Jacobson et al. methodology. The unifies approach to software development.

Overview of class and Use case diagram. Behavior diagram-Interaction diagram- sequence diagram, collaboration diagram, state chart diagram, Activity diagram. Implementation diagram-Component diagram, Deployment diagram.

Use case driven object-oriented analysis: the unified approach. Use case model. Developing effective documentation. The concept of classification. Approaches for identifying classes-Noun phrase approach, common class patterns approach, use case driven approach, Classes, Responsibilities and Collaborators (CRC) approach. Analyzing relationship among classes, Class responsibilities- Identifying and defining attributes and methods.

The object-oriented design processes. Design Axioms. Corollaries. Design Pattern Basics, Creational Patterns-Singleton Pattern, Factory Pattern, Factory Method Pattern; Structural Patterns-Adapter Pattern, Composite Pattern; Decorator Patterns, Proxy Pattern, Behavioral Patterns: Iterator Pattern, Strategy Pattern, Visitor Pattern Command Pattern, Chain of Responsibility.

The process of designing classes, Class Visibility-Designing well defined public, private and protected protocols. Refining attributes. Designing methods and protocols. Designing access layer classes. Macro level UI design process. Micro level UI design activities.