Systems Analysis and Design, UML Version 2.0: An Object-Oriented Approach

By Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom, David Tegarden, et al.

Book Overview

The 4th edition of Dennis/Wixon/Tegarden's Systems Analysis and Design with UML continues to offer a concise, modern and applied introduction to OO SAD. The new edition offers updated material, more hands-on exercises, and more applied examples. Furthermore a new emphasis on agile methods tackles programming issues and on business process modeling and ethics to add strategic coverage that appeals to IS majors. Additional coverage of new mobile devices and tablets refresh the content as well as supplementary material, including minicases, coverage of ethics, business process modeling, mobile applications and better illustrations, examples, and exercises.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118037421
• ISBN13: 9781118037423
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A good set of core skills for object oriented system analyst

The UML writing style of this book is very easy to follow, and a great way to gradually introduce the whole concept of object-oriented analysis and design methodologies to the readers, especially the beginners. The authors did a great job illustrating the entire system development life cycle with a coherent and realistic example using the latest UML notations, practical methodologies, and various analytical artifacts. The...

Outstanding Reference on UML 2.0 & System Design

I have looked at over twenty books on UML and its updates over the past few years, and this book is a gem. It is concise, and provides a clear picture of the entire systems design process It shows how UML 2.0 can be used to support system requirements capture, specification, analysis, and design. It clearly says what is important and what is not, and what is not covered in the book. Very pleasing to look at visually,...

Pragmatic and consise!

The book offers a very pragmatic approach to the subject of system analysis and design. It also has the advantage of not being dispersive, so the reader does never loose the focus. Repetition occurs only occasionally, for concepts that may be more hostile to digest. The only thing that I reckon is missing is a support with some templates that is possible to use (e.g. a CD-ROM with examples of analysis and design). Overall,...

Useful for Students and Practitioners

Having taught system analysis and design in the past, and having taken courses on it, this is one of the better books out there. The difficulty faced by the authors is that there is no "one true" methodology for analyzing and designing systems. This book does a good job of overviewing the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and brings real-world examples to the table. An on-going example does a good job of illustrating...

Two Thumbs Up

Alan Dennis and Barbara Wixom make a difficult subject come alive with easy to understand language and real life case studies