J.14. Wrap-Up

Now that we have presented the complete ATM implementation, you can see that many issues arose during implementation for which we did not provide detailed UML diagrams. This is not uncommon in an object-oriented design and implementation experience. For example, many attributes listed in the class diagrams were implemented as Visual Basic properties so that clients of the classes could gain controlled access to the underlying Private instance variables. We did not make these properties during our design process, because there was nothing in the requirements document or our design process to indicate that certain attributes would eventually need to be accessed outside of their classes.

We also encountered various issues with simulating ...

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