Reviews for Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: A Practical Approach (Object Technology Series)

1. An excellent hands on approach to the design process

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, September 12th, 2000

   This book is an excellent introduction to practical Object Modelling. The technique proposed is slimmed down version of the Unified Process. It focusses on the important diagrams and allows the designer to concentrate on moving the process forward. The empasis is very much on practical hands-on design which a lot of other books in this area are quite weak on.

2. A practical guide through the maze of OO theory.

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, March 12rd, 2000

   If you want to try Use Cases & UML but you're not sure where or how to begin then this book could help kickstart your efforts. The book's approach is a good fit for Corporate IT shops - particularly if you regularly have aggressive deadlines to meet and methodologies are expected to earn their keep within weeks ! A cautionary note: identifying generalisation relationships starts very early in the process i.e. before object behaviour is clearly understood. Looking for inheritance too early can cause "analysis paralysis". All in all, an excellent way to get started with OO analysis and design - the purists and theorists won't like it but it's not aimed at them anyway.