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From: cjames@envisionet.net
Subject: Re: Documenting an Object Oriented Design
Date: 1995/04/18
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> In article <8849291418041995/A29581/RIT2/1194939D3100*@MHS>, 

> <WILLIAM.FENTY@REUTERS.COM> writes:
> > Hello,

> > 

> > I have a question. I have seen a lot of Information on Object Oriented

> > Design and Object Oriented Languages. Does anyone know where I might

> > find information on how to document an object oriented design?

> > 

> > Thanks...

> > 

> > Bill Fenty

> > william.fenty@reuters.com

> > 
> 
> The one used in Europe now with success is Business Object Notation [BON].
> 
> See the FAQ for comp.lang.eiffel for details of the 1995 book.
> 
> 

The book is by Kim Walden and Jean-Marc Nerson.  "Seamless Object-Oriented 
Software Architecture : Analysis and Design of Reliable Systems".  1995.  
Prentice Hall (UK).  ISBN:  0-13-031303-3.  

This book is already in its second printing.  The methodology is supported by
EiffelCASE from Interactive Software Engineering, Inc (Bertrand Meyer's company) 
at (805) 685 - 1006.  ISE also probably has the book above for sale and Meyer's
latest book "Object Success" which is surely to be a best seller in the field.

The advantage of BON is that assertions can be checked with predicate logic to 
validate the correctness of the design.  Of the 40-50 other methodologies, none
do this.  The Walden and Nerson book also details why the following methods have 
defective logic, ie can be amibiguous and hence invalid:  Jim Rumbaugh's OMT, Chen 
et al's ER, and Grady's Booch Method.