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Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, 3rd Edition
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Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, 3rd Edition

by Grady Booch, Robert A. Maksimchuk, Michael W. Engle, Bobbi J. Young, Jim Conallen, Kelli A. Houston
April 2007
Beginner to intermediate
720 pages
20h 14m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 6Process

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic, some sensational method or tool whose application promises to render software development trivial. It is the mark of the professional software engineer to know that no such panacea exists. Amateurs often want to follow cookbook steps; professionals know that such approaches to development usually lead to inept design products, born of a progression of lies, and behind which developers can shield themselves from accepting responsibility for earlier misguided decisions. The amateur software engineer either ignores documentation altogether or follows a process that is documentation-driven, worrying more about how these paper products look to the customer than about the ...

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