Download or read book Object-oriented Software: Design And Maintenance written by Miriam A M Capretz and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996-09-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a textbook for a course in object-oriented software engineering at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as for software engineers. It contains more than 120 exercises of diverse complexity.The book discusses fundamental concepts and terminology on object-oriented software development, assuming little background on software engineering, and emphasizes design and maintenance rather than programming.It also presents up-to-date and easily understood methodologies and puts forward a software life cycle model which explicitly encourages reusability during software development and maintenance.