Offering a number of exercises of diverse complexity, this text discusses fundamental concepts and terminology on object-oriented software development, with emphasis on design and maintenance rather than programming. It also presents methodologies and proposes a software life-cycle model which focuses on reusability during software development and maintenance.

This is a textbook for a course in object-oriented software engineering at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as for software engineers. It contains more than 120 exercises of diverse complexity.