Object Engineering - The Fourth Dimension

Philippe DESFRAY - 1994
Adisson & Wesley

"The fourth dimension" shows how object oriented modeling can greatly simplify the different phases of software development. Philippe Desfray presents a technique called 'hypergenericity' which automates the process of development by transforming the software model, from the analysis through to the implementation. "The fourth dimension" symbolizes the evolution of models during transformations.

Readers familiar with the OOA, OMT and BOOCH models will recognize the principles and techniques that have been retained, and will also discover new concepts introduced by the model CLASS RELATIONSHIP. This model is based on new ideas such as domains, schemas, flow diagrams, elementary classes and automatic control, and combines them to construct an Object Model.

In this way, Philippe Desfray gives the reader a step-by-step definition of an object oriented model, combining theory and practical examples. All software development is covered, from the specification through to implementation and testing. There are also descriptions of important standard modeling processes:

• system modeling
• database modeling
• modeling real time applications
• modeling user interfaces

Readers discovering Object Modeling for the first time will be guided from the basics of the object model through to mastery of the most elaborate forms of modeling.
The author, Philippe Desfray, is Director of R&D at SOFTEAM, leading company in object technologies.

The Level of Quality of Software and Internet Services

Dominique Vauquier, .Net and Web Services
AFNOR

Quality will henceforth be seen as a question of survival. In computing, the state of the art has slowly become richer, to the point where it now proposes principles, techniques, and recommendations that modify our perception of projects, and must provide us weapons to cope with this complexity.

Numerous tools provide us with evidence for this, whatever the methods of measuring the software, testing, or managing the configuration.

The Level of Quality of Software and Internet Services" tries to show the diversity of situations and the multiplicity of the solutions that can be envisaged. It emphasizes the need for taking the context of the project into account.

• The first part covers the process of drafting, stage by stage, showing the actions the project managers must carry out.
• The second part supplements the process by commenting on the standard synopsis applicable to the quality plan.
• The third part examines the provisions specific to particular contexts: developments in X-Net technologies and projects using UML notation.

Dominique Vauquier is head of methods, and a consultant. His areas of intervention cover object oriented modeling, urbanization for information systems, process design and project construction.
" All of the essentials concerning the evolution of UML, I have got from Philippe Desfray, vice president of SOFTEAM and chief of Research and Development. I have been profoundly affected by his work on modeling, and I rank him as one of the very best methodologists."