For courses in Object-Oriented Design, C++ Intermediate Programming, and Object-Oriented Programming, this text is for software engineers and students. It focuses on the technology, principles, patterns, and process to manage complex operating systems and applications. It also emphasizes on the people behind the technology.

Describes how to improve your software development by integrating accountability, transparency and responsibility into your daily development process. This book helps you how to: involve the whole team; increase technical collaboration through pair programming and continuous integration; reduce defects through developer testing; and more.

Use cases provide a beneficial means of project planning because they clearly show how people will ultimately use the system being designed. This guide provides software developers with a nuts-and-bolts tutorial for writing use cases. It covers introductory, intermediate, and advanced concepts, and is suitable for all knowledge levels.

Presents a catalog of simple solutions to commonly occurring design problems. These 23 patterns allow designers to create more reusable designs without having to rediscover the design solutions themselves. The authors begin by describing what patterns are, and how they can help you design object-oriented software.

Demonstrates how software practitioners can realize the benefits of refactoring. This book shows you where opportunities for refactoring typically can be found, and how to go about reworking a bad design into a good one. It provides a catalog of more than seventy proven refactorings with helpful pointers that teach you when to apply them.

Focuses on the end result of object-oriented analysis and design. This book provides a catalogue of patterns that have emerged in a range of domains including trading, measurement, accounting and organizational relationships. It also presents a series of support patterns that discuss how to turn conceptual models into software.