Barbara Haley Wixom – författare

Systems Analysis and Design: An Object-Oriented Approach with UML, Sixth Edition helps students develop the core skills required to plan, design, analyze, and implement information systems. Offering a practical hands-on approach to the subject, this textbook is designed to keep students focused on doing SAD, rather than simply reading about it. Each chapter describes a specific part of the SAD process, providing clear instructions, a detailed example, and practice exercises. Students are guided through the topics in the same order as professional analysts working on a typical real-world project.Now in its sixth edition, this edition has been carefully updated to reflect current methods and practices in SAD and prepare students for their future roles as systems analysts. Every essential area of systems analysis and design is clearly and thoroughly covered, from project management, to analysis and design modeling, to construction, installation, and operations. The textbook includes access to a range of teaching and learning resources, and a running case study of a fictitious healthcare company that shows students how SAD concepts are applied in real-life scenarios.

Systems Analysis and Design, 8th Edition offers students a hands-on introduction to the core concepts of systems analysis and systems design. Following a project-based approach written to mimic real-world workflow, the text includes a multitude of cases and examples, in-depth explanations, and special features that highlight crucial concepts and emphasize the application of fundamental theory to real projects.

Enables readers to analyze and design systems — not just read about IT Systems Analysis and Design: An Object-Oriented Approach with UML, Seventh Edition captures the dynamic aspects of the field by keeping students focused on doing SAD while presenting the core set of skills that every systems analyst needs to know today and in the future. The team of expert authors introduces each major technique, explains what it is, explains how to do it, presents an example, and provides opportunities for students to practice before they do it for real in a project. After reading each chapter, students will be able to perform that step in the system development process. NEW TO THIS EDITION A greater emphasis on developing information systems using an incremental and iterative approach and verifying, validating, and testing throughout the bookChapter on agile developmentChapter that overviews the supporting workflows of the Unified ProcessGreatly expanded the Library Management System (LMS) example integrated throughout the chaptersConverted the Campus Housing example to a set of “Your Turn” exercises. Also, suggested answers to each exercise are included in the Instructor’s ManualAppendix section on sequence, decision, and looping/repeating programming structuresNew and expanded sections on storytelling, NoSQL, data distribution and peer-to-peer architectureExpanded coverage of the interdependencies among the functional (Chapter 3), structural (Chapter 4), and behavioral (Chapter 5) modelsNew and revised figures throughout the bookUpdated MS Word templates that can be used for system requests, system proposals, use case descriptions, CRC cards, contracts, method specifications, use case test plan, class test plan, and class invariant test specificationsWILEY ADVANTAGE Focuses on real-world application by guiding students through practice problems and using the technique in a projectPresents a contemporary, object-oriented approach using UML (Unified Modeling Language)Integrates stories, feedback, and advice from a diverse industry advisory board of IS professionals and consultantsProvides chapters that each cover a different step in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process