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 run a CRC card session
 To use CRC cards in analysis and design

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We need...
 3x5 or 4x6 index cards, or sheets of paper
cut to the same size
 Tape
 String
 People!

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The CRC card

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What is CRC
 Contains
 Classes
 Responsibilities
 Collaborators
 Facilitate open discussion of static
structure of a system
 Facilitate open discussion of dynamic
structure, the “what-if” exploration, by use
of object role play

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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
 Each person is responsible for one class

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

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Responsibilities
 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 need

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The Analysis Exercise 1/2
 This application will support the operations
of a technical library for an R&D
organization. This includes the searching
for and lending of technical library
materials, including books, videos, and
technical journals. Users will enter their
company ids in order to use the system;
and they will enter material ID numbers
when checking out and returning items.

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The Analysis Exercise 2/2
 Each borrower can be lent up to five items.
Each type of library item can be lent for a
different period of time (books 4 weeks,
journals 2 weeks, videos 1 week). If
returned after their due date, the library
user's organization will be charged a fine,
based on the type of item( books P10/day,
journals P30/day, videos P50/day).
 Materials will be lent to employees with no
overdue lendables, fewer than five articles
out, and total fines less than P1000.

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Scenario # 1
 What happens when Juan dela Cruz, who
has no accrued fines and one outstanding
book, not overdue, checks out a book
entitles "Document, Your job depends on
it"?

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Scenario # 2
 What happens when Juan dela Cruz returns
the book "Document, Your job depends on
it" two days late? He has no other item
checked out and no acquired fines.

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Scenario # 3
 What happens when Annie Batungbakal
uses the search feature to look for the book
"Object-Oriented Software Engineering" of
which there are 2 copies available?

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Scenario # 4
 What happens when Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah
uses the search feature to look for the book
"Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with
Application" of which there is 1 copy
available and the database is down?

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The Design Exercise
 New things to record on your cards
 Class attributes
 Break down the responsibilities into
subresponsibilities
 After the Collaborator class on your card list
the responsibility of the used class that is used
in the collaboration
 After the collaborating responsibilities on your
cards, list the data passed back by the
collaborating object in parenthesis.

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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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