SE 430
Object Oriented Modeling
Useful Information

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Table of Contents

• Text Book
• Project Advice
• Project Forms and Documents
• Project Ideas and Homework Information
• The Domain (for lectures and assignments)
• CASE Tools for Use
• On-line articles, documents and references of Interest for Instructor and Students
• Patterns
• Lean Programming
• Robert Martin Articles
• Software Development Magazine Articles
• Object Oriented Technology
• UML Information

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Text Book

Required:

• Arlow, Jim and Neustadt, Ila (2005). UML 2 and the Unified Process, Second Edition: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-32127-8.
• Deemer, Pete, Benefield, Gabrielle, Larman, Craig, and Vodde, Bas (2012). The Scrum Primer: A Lightweight Guide to the Theory and Practice of Scrum, Version 2.0. Download available free at http://www.scrumprimer.org/

Recommended

• UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third Edition, Martin Fowler (with Kendall Scott), Addison-Wesley Prof./Pearson, 2003.  ISBN: 978-0321193681

Others

• Introduction to Object-Oriented Modeling and UML - ebook and podcasts on UML and Object-oriented modeling
• Craig Larman, Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development, 3/E, 2005, Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN: 0-13-148906-2
  
• Applying UML and Patterns : An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
  
• Larman's UML Process

Project Advice

• Developing Software in Groups
• How to Lose in SE430
• How to lose in writing a term paper - Term paper advice
  

CASE Tools for Use

• Commercial tools (you might get a trial version)
• Rational Software  
• Borland provides Together
• Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems: www.sparxsystems.com.au/ea.htm
• a software program for UML
• they offer an evaluation copy for 30 days
• MicroSoft Visio is available for CDM students for use on your computer. Look at Microsoft Software link at the CDM>resources page
  
• Visio 2003 has a set of UML templates
• Another source of Visio stencils: http://www.softwarestencils.com/uml/index.html#How
• Quantum-Leaps has a set of Visio stencils for state charts: http://www.quantum-leaps.com/resources/goodies.htm
  
• Free or cheap
  • Visual Paradigm - Visual Paradigm for UML Community Edition is available free, for non-commercial use, and is the best tool for starting to learn UML.
  • Poseidon for UML - Freeware
  • UMLGraph - Declarative Drawing of UML Diagrams. Running the UmlGraph doclet on the specification will generate a Graphviz diagram specification that can be automatically processed to create Postscript, GIF, SVG, JPEG, fig, or FrameMaker drawings.
• Software for the Macintosh:
• OmniGraffle is a drawing tool that occasionally was bundled with a Mac G5. The newest version is great. It has a complete set of UML templates for use.  Pricing for OmniGraffle 5.0 Standard Edition is $100.00. There is also a 15 day trial/demo version.
  

Project Forms and Documents

Forms for use

• Brief Use Case
  
• Extended Use Case
• High-level Use Case Description
• Operation Contract Sample

Other templates that might be adapted

• status-reports.html
• requirements.html
• requirements-assessment.html
• project-plan.html
• project-plan-assessment.html
• presentation.html
• design.html

Access to electronic books and journal articles

The DePaul Library has on-line access to many books and journals. These are available online at the DePaul Libraries Web site, http://library.depaul.edu. [Electronic Books: Books 24x7: BusinessPro and Books 24x7: ITPro; also Safari Books.] Journals are available for

• ACM Digital Library
• IEEE Explore

UML Information

• UML - UML^® Resource Page. OMG is the group that defines UML and supports it. Has lots of links to software, tutorials, etc.
  
• OO/UML links
• Quick UML Reference: http://www.quantum-leaps.com/resources/goodies.htm
  

On-line articles, documents and references of interest for instructors and students

These articles come from several sources including: Larman's Company (Object by Design), Software Development Magazine (on-line), web pages by Alistair Cockburn and other sources. Material is organized in the approximate order it is covered in the course.

• Lecture 1
  
• Development process 
• Larman's UML Process
• Enhancing the Unified Process
• Software Life Cycle Models
• Seeing the Forests in the Midst of the Trees (3.15 MB ppt) (Propaganda by Rational)
• Major Causes of Software Project Failures - Most software projects can be considered at least partial failures because few projects meet all their cost, schedule, quality, or requirements objectives. Failures are rarely caused by mysterious causes, but these causes are usually discovered post-mortem, or only after it is too late to change direction. This article is based on interviews with software consultants and practitioners who were asked to provide "autopsies" of failed projects with which they have been acquainted. Although not a comprehensive compilation of failure causes, this article outlines several areas that should demand your attention.
• Phillip G. Armour, "Twenty Percent: Planning to fail on software projects",  CACM, Vol 50, No. 6 (June 2007), p 21-23. (local mirror)
• Concepts Review
• Core Object Principles in OO Programming (Thinking with Objects)
• Lecture 2
• Requirements 
• Give Them What They Want
• SD Agile Modeling: 19 Tips for Better Requirements
• The Problem Domain
• Capturing Business Rules 
• Lecture 3
• Use cases
• Driving Design with Use Cases
• Capturing Requirements with Use Cases
• Top Ten Use Case Mistakes
• How to Avoid Use Case Pitfalls
• Sampler of Good & Bad Use Cases
• Structuring use cases with goals
  
• See also: Alistair Cockburn's web pages
• UML Tutorial -- Use Cases (local mirror)
• Sequence Diagrams
• Sequence Diagrams: One Step at a time
• Lecture 4
• Traceability
• Tracing Your Design
• Domain (or Conceptual Model)
• The Problem Domain
• Using CRC Cards
• Lecture 5
• Robustness Diagrams
• Introduction to Robustness Diagrams
• Successful Robustness Analysis
• Books that cover Robustness Analysis
• Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML
• Agile Development with ICONIX process
• Function-Class Decomposition
• Responsibility-Based Modeling
• Lecture 6
• Interaction Diagrams
• Sequence Diagrams: One Step at a time
• UML Collaboration Diagrams (local mirror)
• UML Sequence Diagrams (local mirror)
• State Machines
• UML Finite State Machine Diagrams (local mirror)
• Lecture 7
• Patterns
• "Non-Software Examples of Software Design Patterns," Duell, M.J., Object Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 5, July 1997, pp. 52-57.
• Patterns: A Way to Reuse Expertise, Linda Rising (Mirror)
  
• Software Patterns - briefing  by James O. Coplien on patterns (for management)
• Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminology,  Brad Appleton, very good discussion!!
  
• Java GoF Creational Design Patterns - JDJ, Vol 9, Iss 9, Sept. 2004
• Java GoF Behavioral Design Patterns - JDJ, Vol. 10, Iss 10, Nov. 2005, pp. 44-53
  
• Java Design Patterns Reference and Examples
• Book: Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML
  
• Approaches to Design
• Walking through a UML Design (mirror) - This article walks the reader through a fairly complex UML design. Many design principles and patterns are described.
• Responsibility-Based Modeling
• Responsibility-Driven Design (Lecture notes in PDF, 101 slides plus a tutorial)
• Adding to your Conceptual Tool Kit:  What’s Important about Responsibility-Driven Design?
  
• Lecture 8
• Concepts for Simpler Design
• Principles and Patterns -- "What goes wrong with software?" A brief explanation of the ten Principles of OOD with supporting patterns.
• Metrics
• Applying and Interpreting Object Oriented Metrics
• Software Quality Metrics for Object Oriented System Environments
• Lecture 9
• UML Class Diagrams (local mirror)
• Walking through a UML Design (local mirror)
• Lecture 10
• Concepts Review
• Core Object Principles in OO Programming (Thinking with Objects)
• Wrap-up
• Debunking Modeling Myths
• How UML is used: Two decades of the language-action perspective, Brian Dobing and Jeffrey Parsons, Communications of the ACM, Volume 49 ,  Issue 5  (May 2006) Pages:  109 - 113
• Assisting novice analysts in developing quality conceptual models with UML, Narasimha Bolloju and Felix S.K. Leung, Communications of the ACM, Volume 49 ,  Issue 7  (July 2006) Pages: 108 - 112
  
• Making Sense of Modeling
• How to Fail with the Rational Unified Process: Seven Steps to Pain and Suffering
  
• Metrics
• Applying and Interpreting Object Oriented Metrics
• Software Quality Metrics for Object Oriented System Environments
• New Programming Paradigms - Lean Programming
  • The New Methodology (Martin Fowler) "In the past few years there's been a rapidly growing interest in agile (aka "lightweight") methodologies. Alternatively characterized as an antidote to bureaucracy or a license to hack they've stirred up interest all over the software landscape. In this essay I explore the reasons for agile methods, focusing not so much on their weight but on their adaptive nature and their people-first orientation. I also give a summary and references to the processes in this school and consider the factors that should influence your choice of whether to go down this newly trodden path. "
  • Scrum
    
  • The best resource for Scrum is the The Scrum Primer: A Lightweight Guide to the Theory and Practice of Scrum, Version 2.0. Download available free at http://www.scrumprimer.org/
  • Scrum
  • What is Scrum?
  • The Scrum Software Development Process for Small Teams, Linda Rising and Norm Janoff. IEEE Software, July-August 2000.
  • Agile Modeling
  • Unified and Agile - An Agile version of RUP, Software Development, June 2006, p. 49
  • The Agile Modeling Newsletter: Leading Edge Agile Books
    
  • Lean Programming - Part I
  • Lean Programming - Part II
  • The Agile Manifesto
  • Agile Modeling and eXtreme Programming (XP)
  • Agile Modeling - How Much Proof Do You Need?
  • Extreme Programming
    
  • What is Extreme Programming?
    
  • Extreme programming: Process vs. culture
  • Setting the Record Straight: Modeling and XP
  • Model Driven Architecture
  • An introduction to Model Driven Architecture
  • OMG Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
  • Book: Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML
    
  • Scott Ambler's Agile Modeling Newsletter
    
  • 10 tips for successful agile analysis.
  • 19 Tips for Better Requirements.
  • 15 Design Tips
  • Making Sense of Modeling

General Articles

• Objects by Design: Choosing a UML Modeling Tool
• Objects by Design: UML Modeling Tool
• Concepts for Simpler Design
• Martin Fowler: Articles
• Analysis Patterns
• XP and Agile Methods
• Refactoring
• Supplements for UML Distilled

Project Ideas and Homework Information

• Badge controls displays
• The Global Positioning System
  
• Smart Dust
• LoL@, a Mobile Tourist Guide for UMTS (UMTS is a mobile phone technology)
• TREK TECH - 40 years since the Enterprise's inception, some of its science fiction gadgets are part of everyday life

• iPhone™
• Android
• iPad
  

The Domain: The Museum Automation Project

• Mobile Guide
  
• The Museum Automation Project
• Location-Aware Computing, Berman, Lewis and Conto, November 2008
• Handheld 'Smart' Museum Guide Unveiled at University of Haifa
  University of Haifa (02/16/07)
• Check on Google for: mobile context-aware tour guide
• Older Papers
  
• See special issue of (ACM) Wireless Networks, Vol. 3, No. 5 (October 1997).
• I-Guides in Progress: Two Prototype Applications for Museum Educators and Visitors Using Wireless Technologies to Support Informal Science Learning
• The State of the Art in Museum Handhelds in 2003. This paper examines the rapidly changing state of museum handhelds from both a technology and content perspective.
  
• KORE: a Multi-Agent System to Assist Museum Visitors
• A survey of mobile guides
• Hermes: A Software Framework for Mobile, Context-Aware Trails Applications
• Developing a Context-aware Electronic Tourist Guide: Some Issues and Experiences (Local mirrored copy.)
• Lancaster GUIDE Project. Good overview of a system that possess many features that are required in the Visitor Information Subsystem. Local mirrored copy.
• Hewlett-Packard cooltown Project. http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2002/HPL-2002-54.html. Another good overview of a system that shares many characteristics with the On-Site Education Subsystem. Local mirrored copy.
• San Francisco Exploratorium Electronic Guidebook Research Project. http://www.exploratorium.edu/guidebook/. Very extensive report on the S.F. Exploratorium Project. Use as a reference only. Local mirrored copy.
• San Francisco Exploratorium Electronic Guidebook Research Project: 2005 Exploratorium Electronic Guidebook Forum  (Local mirrored copy).
• m-TOguide Project. A more ambitious system than the Lancaster GUIDE Project. Local mirrored copy. 

Robert Martin Articles

UML Class Diagrams (local mirror) Robert C. Martin C++ Report, 1997	This article describes how to draw Class diagrams in UML. It presents these diagrams in the form of a case study, and discusses design principles as well.
UML Collaboration Diagrams (local mirror) Robert C. Martin C++ Report, 1998	This article uses case studies to describe how to use Collaboration diagrams in UML.
UML Sequence Diagrams (local mirror) Robert C. Martin C++ Report, 1998	This article uses case studies to describe UML sequence diagrams. It also talks about principles of good object oriented design.
UML Finite State Machine Diagrams (local mirror) Robert C. Martin C++ Report, 1998	This article employs case studies to demonstrate the principles and notation of UML finite state machines.
UML Tutorial -- Use Cases (local mirror) Robert C. Martin C++ Report, 1998	This article uses several case studies to show the reader how to use Use Cases in UML.
Walking through a UML Design (local mirror) Robert C. Martin , James W. Newkirk 1998	This article walks the reader through a fairly complex UML design. Many design principles and patterns are described.
Iterative and Incremental Development I (local mirror) Robert C. Martin C++ Report, 1999	This article, a forerunner to the now famous tale of Rufus and Rupert, describes the woes of a project that uses waterfall.
Iterative and Incremental Development II (local mirror) Robert C. Martin C++ Report, 1999	This article describes the fundamentals of Iterative and Incremental Development.
Iterative and Incremental Development III - Faking It (local mirror) Robert C. Martin C++ Report, 1999	This article discusses how to use an iterative and incremental development process in a company that expects waterfall.
Principles and Patterns (local mirror) Robert C. Martin objectmentor.com, 2000	"What goes wrong with software?" A brief explanation of the ten Principles of OOD with supporting patterns.
RUP vs. XP (local mirror) Robert C. Martin objectmentor.com, 2001	A description of XP as a minimal instance of RUP.

Design Principles  articles by Robert Martin explaining each of his ten design principles. See Principles and Patterns above as well.

Magazine Articles

Software Development Magazine has been bought by Dr. Dobbs' Journal and folded into the latter. DDJ now has all the Software Development Magazine articles in its archives. Look there for articles of interest:  Dr. Dobbs' Portal.  Also, reach the Architecture & Design department.

Object Oriented Technology

My thoughts on Object Oriented Technology