The CRC Card

Exercise

Java Boot Camp

OOP Concepts and Java Fundamentals

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Objectives
 To think in an object-oriented manner
 To use a responsibility-driven approach to
object-oriented development
 To develop a Domain Model through the
exercise

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A typical CRC card

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What is CRC
 Contains
 Classes
 Responsibilities
 Collaborators

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Classes
 Find all the nouns and verbs in the problem
statement
 Nouns are a good key as to what classes are
in the system
 Verbs show the responsibilities
 One class per card

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Superclasses and
Subclasses
 Can be defined at any time they become
obvious
 They may be defined immediately or may
wait until the scenario does this.

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Responsibilities
 The tasks the class is required to handle
 Add the obvious
 From the requirements
 From the name of the class

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Collaborators
 Identify the classes that cooperate with
each other to provide a needed service.
 They help the class under study (the one
on the card) fulfill its responsibilities.

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The CRC Exercise
 This CRC exercise that will be played out is
a simplification of the actual process for
purposes of helping you understand how
to design a domain model and define the
object interactions.
 For our exercise the card will hold only the
class name.

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The CRC Exercise
 Exercise Objectives:
 Part 1: Design the static structure of a system,
the Domain Model
 Part 2: Develop an understanding of how the
elements of the Domain Model interact by
means of roleplay.

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Exercise Application
 <Application specs for the inter-University
cross-enrollment system will be inserted
here>

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The CRC Exercise
 Part 1: Design the static structure of a
system, the Domain Model
 Create a class for each of the business entities
that you expect to use in the system.
 Identify the relationships, if any, of the
business entitied you defined.

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The CRC Exercise
 Part 2: Develop an understanding of how
the elements of the Domain Model interact
by means of roleplay.
 Each object will be roleplayed by one person.

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Acknowledgements
 Reflections on CRC cards for OO design
 http://www.cs.umu.se/~jubo/Meetings/OOPSLA01/Contributions/RBiddle.html

 Object oriented analysis and design using

CRC cards
 http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~dbutler/tutorials/winter96/crc_b/

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