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The name of a class should reﬂect its intrinsic nature and not a role that it plays in an association. For example, Owner would be a poor name for a class in a car manufacturer's database. What if a list of drivers is added later? What about persons who lease cars? The proper class is Person (or possibly Customer), which assumes various different roles, such as owner, driver, and lessee.

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If two classes express the same information, the most descriptive name should be kept. For example, although customer might describe a person taking an airline ﬂight, Passenger is more descriptive.

James Rumbaugh

Constructs extraneous to the real world should be eliminated from the analysis model. They may be needed later during design, but not now. For example, CPU subroutine, process, algorithm, and interrupt are implementation constructs for most applications [and should be excluded from the analysis model]...

James Rumbaugh

James Rumbaugh

James Rumbaugh

Born: August 22, 1947 (age 78)

Bio: James E. Rumbaugh is an American computer scientist and object-oriented methodologist who is best known for his work in creating the Object Modeling Technique and the Unified Modeling Language.

Known for:

Object-oriented Modeling and Design (1991)
Object-Oriented Modeling and Design with UML (2005)
OMT insights (1996)
Complete UML Training Course, The (2000)

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