Reviews for Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering

The average rating for Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-03-22 00:00:00 Michael Booth 3.0 out of 5 stars Pick a Methodology, Any Methodology June 18, 2008 Stephen R. Schach's "Object-Oriented & Classical Software Engineering" (7ed) is an OK book: it's not bad, but it could certainly be better. First, some minor quibbles: even though the typography and editing is good, I'm not all that enamored with the color scheme: the orange and black theme is too much like a pumpkin. I know it's trivial, but I thought I'd just pass it along. A little more meaningful is that Schach seems to place too much emphasis on definitions. I don't need multiple reminders of the differences between things like corrective, perfective and adaptive maintenance. It would be better if he just focused on the function and not on the definition. For university use, I suppose this is OK. But, I found it a bit irritating. The medium-level problem with the book is that there's a lot of temporal shift in the presentation: he would talk about some model or methodology in terms that implied it was the latest and greatest thing. Yet, it had been around for decades. This is probably a function of the overall age of the book: this is the 7th edition. Most importantly, Schach needs to pick a methodology and stick with it: either talk about the classical methodology or the object-oriented one. Not both. Nowadays, most people probably work with, and are interested in, an object-oriented methodology. Having 1/3 of a book filled with the classical methodology is useless to them. Ditto for those people still working in a classical environment: they won't care about 2/3 of the book. And, for those people who are in a classical environment and want to move to an object-oriented one, there's really nothing in the book that will help them with the transition. If he removed the classical material from the book and published a "how to transition" book instead, that would be great. Again, it's not a bad book. But, it's not that great. I rate it at an OK 3 stars out of 5.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-09 00:00:00 Beth Regan للأسف النسخة اللي معايا - رغم انها أصلية - بس قديمة, كان ممكن أستفيد أكتر م الكتاب ده لو معايا نسخة جديدة.