object-oriented design

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(OOD) A design method in which a system is modelled as a collection of cooperating objects and individual objects are treated as instances of a class within a class hierarchy. Four stages can be identified: identify the classes and objects, identify their semantics, identify their relationships and specify class and object interfaces and implementation. Object-oriented design is one of the stages of object-oriented programming.

Schlaer-Mellor is one approach to OOD.

["Object-oriented analysis and design with applications", Grady Booch, 2nd ed., pub. Benjamin/Cummings, Redwood CA, 1994].

Last updated: 1997-12-07

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object-oriented database ♦ object-oriented design ♦ Object-Oriented Fortran

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