Edward V. Berard

"Software people seem to have a love-hate relationship with metrics. On one hand, they despise and distrust anything that sounds or looks like a measurement. They are quick to point out the "flaws" in …"

"An object which is used to create instances, i.e., a template, description, pattern, or "blueprint" of a category or collection of very similar items. Among other things, a class describes the interfa…"

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."

"A Comparison of Object-Oriented Development Methodologies by Edward V. Berard, 1996"

"Objects are the real and conceptual things we find in the world around us. An object may be hardware, software, a concept , or even "flesh and blood." Objects are complete entities, i.e., they are not…"

"Recently, I have had conversations with a number of people who were attempting their first object-oriented project. Most of these people claimed to be using “use cases” in their object-oriented analys…"

"Work on what was to become “structured design” began in the early 1960s. Structured design, as a well-defined and named concept, did not achieve appreciable visibility until the publication of an arti…"

"Object-oriented domain analysis seeks to identify reusable items localized around objects e.g., classes, instances, systems of interacting objects, and kits."