How We Got Here
In the 1980s, objects began to move away from the research labs and took their first steps toward the "real" world. Smalltalk stabilized into a platform that people could use, and C++ was born.
Like many developments in software, objects were driven by programming languages. Many people wondered how design methods would fit into an object-oriented world. Design methods had become very popular in industrial development in the '70s and '80s. Many felt that techniques to help people do good analysis and design were just as important to object-oriented development.
The key books about object-oriented analysis and design methods appeared between 1988 and 1992:
Sally Shlaer and Steve Mellor wrote a pair of books (1989 and 1991) on analysis ...
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