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From: charlie@genrad.uucp (Charlie D. Havener)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: CASE - The Emperor has no clothes on!
Summary: References to CRC cards design method
Keywords: CASE rubbish
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Date: 11 Jun 90 13:34:58 GMT
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There have been several requests for further references on CRC cards.
CRC stands for Class name, responsibilities, collaborators. See OOPSLA
Proceedings 1989 pages 1-6. This is the original paper as far as I know.
It is by Kent Beck, and Ward Cunningham and is entitled "A Laboratory
for Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking". 

The best description I have read is in a soon to be published text on Object
Oriented Programming by tim budd, department of computer science,
oregon state university, corvallis, oregon 97331. He devotes Chapter 2 to the
method. He has used it in his course at Oregon State. I like the new
Grady Booch text on OOD but was suprised that he made no mention of the
CRC method.

Thre have been tutorial's on the method at the '89 OOPSLA, at the recent
SCOOP ( Seminars and Conference on OOP ) at the Wang Institute of BU, and
I hope there will be one at the Oct 1990 OOPSLA/ECOOP conference in Ottowa
Canada. ( Ottawa -- Hmmm that doesn't llok right either ).