Description
This intensive five-day course provides a practical working knowledge of object-oriented analysis and design using the Object Modeling Technique (OMT). The methodology is applied to a case study in order to see where and how concepts are best implemented. This course emphasizes effectiveness of using a consistent, robust methodology in object-oriented design through extensive written exercises.

Audience
Systems analysts, designers and developers who will design and develop object-oriented programs.

Prerequisites
Participants should have experience in analysis and design plus an overall understanding of object-oriented concepts.

Format

• Presentation
  
• Written Exercises
  

Objectives
After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe the object model and how to apply it
• Derive an object model, dynamic model and functional model via an analytic process
• Create an object-oriented system design
• Recognize the current strengths and limitations of object-oriented analysis and object-oriented design

Object-Oriented Concepts

• The need for object technology

Object Model

• Class and object diagrams
• Attributes and operations
• Associations and links
• Multiplicity (cardinality)
• Aggregation and inheritance

Dynamic Model

• States and events
• Specialization and concurrency
• Advanced actions

Functional Model

• Transforms and terminal transforms
• Data stores and control flows
• Hierarchy of functions
• Definition of terminals

Relationship of OMT Models

Object-Oriented Analysis

• Analysis vs. design
• Constructing an object model
• When to build a dynamic model
• When to use a functional model
• Iteration

System Design

• Subsystems
• Concurrency and processor allocation
• Control architecture
• Design trade-offs

Object Design

• Combining the models
• Implementing control
• Maximize inheritance
• Object representation and storage

Pragmatics

• Immaturity of OOA/OOD
• New metrics
• Change and reuse
• Development considerations