CRC Cards - Naming Part 3

Another way of specifying a class’s name is to use CRC cards. Proposed by Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham¹, I first came across these many years ago in Grady Booch’s book ‘OO Analysis and Design’. CRC initially stood for Class, Responsibilities and Collaborators, though in today’s single responsibility principal world, Responsibilities has been quietly renamed Responsibility.

Clues from Classification: Naming Part 2

My last blog took a quick look at the fundamental OO rule that states that class names must be a noun. It highlighted the problem that even if you apply it correctly you can still end up with badly named classes and is partly a result of trying to apply the flimsy and lax rules of the English language to the need for precision in software development.

The question is, what are we trying to achieve when we name an object?

What's in a Name? Part 1

One of the things that we all do on a daily basis in our work is to name objects. It’s an activity that we take for granted without ever giving it much thought. It’s also something that we often get wrong and sometimes do badly and there are a couple of reasons for this