OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DESIGN

Abstract

Object-oriented software development has gained great importance in software industry due to its ability to handle the development of complex software systems both simply and efficiently. Object-oriented technology achieved highly needed goals in software development such as: compatibility, extensibility, maintainability, modifiability, reliability, reusability, understandability and verifiability. The object-oriented development process is an iterative process which includes: object-model analysis, design, implementation and testing. Although each object-model development stage is strongly related to the other stages, object-model design is given more elaboration because it is the stage where the object­ model is formed and all the object-oriented goals are to be achieved.