Table of Contents

A1 Agate Ltd Case Study—Introduction
B1 FoodCo Ltd Case Study—Introduction
1 Information Systems—What Are They?
2 Challenges in Information Systems Development
3 Meeting the Challenges
4 What is Object-Orientation?
5 Modelling Concepts
6 Requirements Capture
A2 Agate Ltd Case Study—Requirements Model
7 Requirement Analysis
A3 Agate Ltd Case Study—Requirements Analysis
8 Refining the Requirements Model
9 Object Interaction
10 Specifying Operations
11 Specifying Control
A4 Agate Ltd Case Study—Further Analysis
12 Moving into Design
13 Systems Design and Architecture
14 Detailed Design
15 Design Patterns
16 Human–Computer Interaction
17 Designing Boundary Classes
18 Data Management Design
A5 Agate Ltd Case Study—Design
19 Implementation
20 Software Reuse
21 Software Development Processes

About the Author

Simon Bennett is a Systems Architect in the Corporate IT department of Celesio AG. He was previously at Ericsson Intracom, and prior to that a Principal Lecturer in the department of Information Systems at De Montfort University. He is one of the authors of Schaums Outline of UML 2nd edition, published by McGraw-Hill.



Ray Farmer is an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University. His major research interests are in information systems analysis and design, and in particular, object technology. He has wide experience as a consultant on object-oriented analysis and design.



Steve McRobb is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering at De Montfort University, Leicester. His main research interests are currently online privacy and the re-documentation of legacy systems in UML. He was previously Principal Administration Officer at the Yorkshire Dales National Park, responsible for the organisations IT strategy.