Exploration Through Example

Example-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick

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Fri, 01 Aug 2003

Putting the object back into OOD

Jim Coplien writes about teaching - and doing - object-oriented design. I don't quite get it, but I think I would like to.

A taste:

In the object-oriented analysis course we typified the solution component as the class structure, and the customer problem component as the Use Cases. CRC cards are the place where these two worlds come together--where struggles with the solution offer insight into the problem itself.

I'd like to see an example of this style of design narrated from beginning to end. In the meantime, the article might well be of interest to people who favor prototypes over classes, prefer verbs to nouns, or are suspicious that categories really "carve nature at its joints".

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