object-oriented design

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object-oriented design - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  object-oriented design
  OOD
  
     <programming> (OOD) A design method in which a system is
     modelled as a collection of cooperating objects and
     individual objects are treated as instances of a class
     within a class hierarchy.  Four stages can be identified:
     identify the classes and objects, identify their semantics,
     identify their relationships and specify class and object
     interfaces and implementation.  Object-oriented design is one
     of the stages of object-oriented programming.
  
     ["Object-oriented analysis and design with applications",
     Grady Booch, 2nd ed., pub. Benjamin/Cummings, Redwood CA,
     1994].
  
     (1997-12-07)