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Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
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Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

by Brett McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, David West
November 2006
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
634 pages
13h 41m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4. Analysis: Taking Your Software into the Real World

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It’s time to graduate to real-world applications.

Your application has to do more than work on your own personal development machine, finely tuned and perfectly set up; your apps have to work when real people use them. This chapter is all about making sure that your software works in a real-world context. You’ll learn how textual analysis can take that use case you’ve been working on and turn it into classes and methods that you know are what your customers want. And when you’re done, you too can say: “I did it! My software is ready for the real world!”

One dog, two dog, three dog, four...

Things are going well at Doug’s Dog Doors. The version of the dog door you just developed in Chapter 3 is selling like crazy... but as more doors get installed, complaints have started coming in:

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Your software has a context

So far, we’ve worked on writing software in a vacuum, and haven’t really thought much about the context that our software is running in. In other words, we’ve been thinking about our software like this:

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But our software has to ...

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