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born 1955 United States

Grady Booch (born February 27, 1955) is an American software engineer. Booch is best known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and James Rumbaugh.

United States
Computer scientists
Software engineers

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The entire history of software engineering is that of the rise in levels of abstraction.

Good people with a good process will outperform good people with no process every time.

Object Solutions: Managing the Object-Oriented Project (1996)

Perhaps the greatest strength of an object-oriented approach to development is that it offers a mechanism that captures a model of the real world.

Grady Booch (1986)

The class Dog is functionally cohesive if its semantics embrace the behavior of a dog, the whole dog, and nothing but the dog.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

An operation is some action one object performs upon another in order to elicit a reaction.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

The object-oriented paradigm is useful when building software systems where there is a hierarchy defined as a ranking or ordering of abstractions.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

Structured design does not scale up well for extremely complex systems, and this method is largely inappropriate for use with object-based and object-oriented programming languages.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

Typically, a subclass augments or redefines the existing structure and behavior of its superclasses.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

All architecture is design but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design decisions that shape a system, where significant is measured by cost of change.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

to Booch in: Frank H. P. Fitzek et al (2010)

Object-oriented analysis is a method of analysis that examines requirements from the perspective of the classes and objects found in the vocabulary of the problem domain.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

In a quality object-oriented software system, you will find many classes that speak the language of the domain expert

Object Solutions: Managing the Object-Oriented Project (1996)

A class is a set of objects that share a common structure and a common behavior

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

Object-oriented design is a method of design encompassing the process of object-oriented decomposition and a notation for depicting both logical and physical as well as static and dynamic models of the system under design.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

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 exist.

‎Robert A. Maksimchuk, ‎Michael W. Engle (2007)

Object-oriented programming is a method of implementation in which programs are organized as cooperative collections of objects, each of which represents an instance of some class, and whose classes are all members of a hierarchy of classes united via inheritance relationships.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

Whereas object-oriented analysis typically focuses upon one specific problem at a time, domain analysis seeks to identify the classes and objects that are common to all applications within a given domain, such as missile avionics systems, compilers, or accounting software.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

If an abstraction is a kind of some other abstraction, or if it is exactly equal to the sum of its components, then inheritance is a better approach

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

In object-oriented analysis, we seek to model the world by identifying the classes and objects that form the vocabulary of the problem domain, and in object-oriented design, we invent the abstractions and mechanisms that provide the behavior that this model requires.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

[A class category is] a collection of classes, some of which are visible to other class categories, and others of which are hidden.

Object-oriented design: With Applications (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Grady Booch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.