eXtropia Studios Software Development

At eXtropia Studios, software development is both a science and a passion. We actively research all aspects of the software production cycle, constantly seeking improvement, constantly working outside the box.

Software Engineering

Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation and maintenance of software. The term software engineering was popularized during the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference (held in Garmisch, Germany) by its chairman F.L. Bauer, and has been in widespread use since. The discipline of software engineering encompasses knowledge, tools, and methods for defining software requirements, and performing software design, software construction, software testing, and software maintenance tasks. Software engineering also draws on knowledge from fields such as computer engineering, computer science, management, mathematics, project management, quality management, software ergonomics, and systems engineering.

Advantages of C++

Compared to the C language, C++ introduces extra features, including declarations as statements, function-like casts, new/delete, bool, reference types, inline functions, default arguments, function overloading, namespaces, classes (including all class-related features such as inheritance, member functions, virtual functions, abstract classes, and constructors), operator overloading, templates, the :: (scope of resolution) operator, exception handling, and runtime type identification.

Object Oriented Programming

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses "objects" to design applications and computer programs. It can use several techniques from previously established paradigms, including inheritance, modularity, polymorphism, and encapsulation. It was not commonly used in mainstream software application development until the 1990s, though many modern programming languages support OOP.

Design Patterns

In software engineering, a design pattern is a general repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design A design pattern is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into code. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations. Object-oriented design patterns typically show relationships and interactions between classes or objects, without specifying the final application classes or objects that are involved.

Object Oriented Design

Object-Oriented Design (OOD) is an activity where the designers are looking for logical solutions to solve a problem, using objects. Object-oriented design takes the conceptual model that is the result of object-oriented analysis, and adds implementation constraints imposed by the environment, the programming language and the chosen tools, as well as architectural assumptions chosen as basis of design. The concepts in the conceptual model are mapped to concrete classes, to abstract interfaces in APIs and to roles that the objects take in various situations. The interfaces and their implementations for stable concepts can be made available as reusable services. Concepts identified as unstable in object-oriented analysis will form basis for policy classes that make decisions, implement environment-specific or situation specific logic or algorithms. The result of the object-oriented design is a detailed description of how the system can be built, using objects.