The OPEN Toolbox of Techniques

Explores how to deliver an object-oriented system using OPEN. The book presents the process from requirements through project management, quality coding and reuse, and aims to complement the OPEN process specifications by focusing on the practical implementation of the methodology.

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The OPEN Toolbox of Techniques describes how to deliver object-oriented systems, from requirements, through project management and modeling, to coding and reuse. It focuses on actually doing object-oriented development and shows how to use specific techniques supported by the OPEN Process framework, described in a companion volume The OPEN Process Specification. A basic knowledge of object-oriented concepts is assumed so that the book can focus on showing the reader how to use an OO methodology in their organization. The first section summarizes the OPEN methodological framework, describes the concepts, notations and deliverables and goes on to give an overview of the techniques. However, the meat of the book is the OPEN Toolbox, a complete description of each technique organized alphabetically for ease of reference. Each entry includes a full description of the technique, how it is used, typical tasks for which it is needed, underpinning concepts and preconditions and related techniques.By referring back to the overview chapter, the reader will be able to see how these techniques fit into the process lifecycle of OPEN, resulting in a uniquely practical and eminently accessible handbook.
The accompanying CD-ROM includes *additional experimental and non OO techniques that may be used within the OPEN framework *an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the OPEN techniques *demonstration versions of commercial tools that have been developed for use with OPEN