Reference Materials

This page contains a set of links to useful Web resources concerning object-oriented analysis and design. Disclaimer: some links may no longer be valid. If you find such a link, send mail to Dr. Anderson.

Feel free to send in pointers of your own!

Class Specific

Corrections to Textbooks

Both textbooks have published lists of corrections.

CU Syllabus Items

Each semester, CU has a number of announcements that they request be included with the class syllabus. Since this class does not have an explicit syllabus, I have placed these announcements here.

Examples From Lectures

Examples from Lecture 02-03: .tar.gz (8 KB) .zip (28 KB)

Example from Lecture 04: .tar.gz (4 KB) .zip (12 KB)

Scanned Images for Lecture 07-08: Use Case Examples

Examples from Lecture 12: .tar.gz (4 KB) .zip (12 KB)

Patterns, part 1 and 2: .tar.gz (4 KB) .zip (12 KB)

Refactoring, part 1 and 2: .tar.gz (6 KB) .zip (27 KB)

Patterns, part 3: .tar.gz (4 KB) .zip (4 KB)

Object-Oriented Technology

Cetus Links

Cetus Links claims to have over 18,000 links to information on Objects and Components!

Link provided by Edmon Begoli.

Interaction Architect

Here's an article from the Interaction Architect website that discusses 13 common objections to performing requirements analysis, and why you should not believe them! The page seems focused on website design, but the objections are generic enough to be useful outside that domain.

Link provided by Usha Sunkad.

The Object Management Group Website

The Object Management Group (or OMG) is a standards organization for the creation of standards releated to object technology. Check this site out for information on UML.

Object Mentor Articles

This site contains lots of articles on object-oriented design, written by a well known author in the OO A&D field, Robert C. Martin.

Link provided by Edmon Begoli.

The OO Tips Website

Object Orientation Tips is a website that syndicates content from object-oriented newsgroups, mailing lists, and other sources.

Link provided by Edmon Begoli.

Grady Booch's Handbook on Software Architecture

Grady Booch maintains a website about software architecture that has a section on patterns that attempts to distill architectural lessons learned from various software systems and architectures.

Link provided by Ryan DeJana.

Patterns

Links provided by Usha Sunkad.

Responsibility-Driven Design

An excellent pointer to information on Responsibility-Driven Design.

Link provided by Vincent Gravdahl.

Use Cases

Cockburn's Use Case Website

Cockburn maintains his own website on use cases: <http://www.usecases.org/>. This website provides templates for Cockburn's use cases in a variety of formats.

Link provided by Michael Preobrazhensky.

HP Use Case Template

Here is a PDF document describing a use case template developed by the Hewlett-Packard Software Initiative.

Link provided by Paul Egges.

UML

Allen Holub's UML Quick Reference

Allen Holub has provided an excellent overview of UML notation.

UML Tools

Altova UModel 2006

Altova UModel 2006 is an advanced UML modeling tool that supports UML 2.

Advanced Concepts Center Links to UML Tools

The Advanced Concepts Center maintains a very useful list of UML tools. My thanks to ACC for allowing me to point to this list!

Argo UML

Argo UML is an open source design environment that supports the creation of object-oriented designs using the latest UML specifications. As an interesting aside, one of the founders of the project, Jason Robbin, used to be my roommate back in graduate school. Jason is a smart, hard-working guy who has accomplished a lot using the open source style of software development.

Link provided by Matthias Hauswirth.

DIA

No DIA does not refer to our local international airport (besides its DEN not DIA!), but instead to a Unix tool called dia that can help you draw UML diagrams.

Link provided by Nathan Blair.

MagicDraw

MagicDraw is another UML design tool: <http://www.magicdraw.com/>.

Link provided by Jeff Palm.

SmartDraw

SmartDraw is a general purpose diagram tool that supports the creation of UML diagrams: <http://www.smartdraw.com/>.

Link provided by Michael Pratt.

Umbrello UML Modeller

Here is a link to the Umbrello UML Modeller project on sourceforge.net.

Link provided by Randell Rivadeneira.

Visual Paradigm

Visual Paradigm is a Java UML tool that integrates with many different development environments, including JBuilder, JDeveloper, Eclipse, Netbeans, and Visual Studio.

Link provided by Michael Pratt.