There are nearly ten references for my academic essay but here I am just writing the annotated bibiliography for four references. Iam still gathering the required information for the essay and the following resources were completely referred to build up the essay.
Shelly, G, Chasman, T & Rosenblatt, H 2007, Systems analysis and design, 7th edn, Thomson Course Technology, Boston.
Shelly et al. systematically explains the traditional approach to systems development by concentrating on all the stages involved with thhis approach. To help understand traditional approach in abetter way, this book presents some case studies and explains the structured analysis techniqued applying for that particular case. This helped me to develop a clear idea of structured approach and describe about it in the essay. However, their work is totally traditional oriented and object-oriented approach is discussed peripherally. This helped me to develop an overview of OOAD but requires further study to understand it better. To compare and contrast both the approaches, knowledge of both the approaches is desired.
Whitten, JL, Bentley, LD & Dittman, KC 2001, Systems analysis and design methods, 5th edn, McGraw-Hill & Irwin, Boston.
Whitten et al. described OOAD methods clearly through UML diagramming techniques. Various diagrams used in different stages of OOA and design are explained and also the concepts such as encapsulation,polymorphism and data abstraction that are unique to OOA approach are discussed. Eventhough very few chapters are dedicated to describe the object-oriented methodology, they develop some clarity about the topic. Like any other book, most of the content is about structured analysis but comparative study about both the approaches is directly not available. Also I could not find the merits and de-merits associated with structured analysis and object-oriented approach.
Mostafavi, H 1998, ‘performance effects of applying design patterns to a telecommunication system ’, (Online ProQuest).
Mostafavi in his study on the performance effects of applying design patterns to a telecommunication system practically discussed some pitfalls associated with structured approach and described how they can be overcomed with object approach. Eventhough his study is specific to a particular topic, I could find some useful information regarding the de-merits associated with the structured approach and the areas in which object approach is effective. His work contributed to my comparative study of both the approaches.
Rob, MA 2006, ‘Dilemma between the structured and object-oriented approaches to systems analysis and design’, The journal of computer information systems, Vol.46, Iss.3, pp 32-43, (Online ProQuest).
Rob, in his journal article discussed about the content of various system analysis and design text books and how that content is helpful in teaching both traditional and object methods to students. He raised the need of seperate text books for both the approaches to avoid confusion among readers and authors as well. In his article he discussed some draw backs of object oriented design concepts and this discussion helped me to gather some information about the de-merits associated with object-oriented methodology. In fact this is the only resource that helped me find out the draw back of object approach with justification in the phase of implementing the database.
