QuickCRCResponsibility Driven Design with CRC Cards

Create object-oriented software with responsibility drivendesign. Use CRC cards to discover and document classes,responsibilities, attributes and collaborations betweenclasses. QuickCRC is ideal for agile methods or as a frontend to UML.

CRC Cards

Create card and scenario objects in the diagramworkspace. A card represents the properties of a classincluding its name, description, superclasses, subclasses,attributes, responsibilities and collaborating objects.

Enter card information through a dialog, collect it from textor manipulate data directly on the screen. Drag or editcard, attribute, responsibility or collaboration names toquickly make design changes. The project is stored as aplatform neutral, XML formatted text file.

Design Scenarios

Use a Scenario object to represent a design pattern. Itshows a series of steps that defines the communicationbetween objects.

Scenarios can reference cards or other scenarios. Cardsand scenarios can also reference external agents definedby the designer to identify system and user interfaces.

Attribute Access

Assign the attribute access of each card responsibility. Thetool shows a live attribute access graph in the cardinformation to help developers discover, refine and elimi-nate unnecessary card attributes.

Model Organization

Separate card and scenario objects into different diagramsbased on functional areas of a complex design. Objectscan be cut and pasted between different models.

Card and scenario objects can be organized based onobject relationships. Search features help to locate cardswith specific data.

The Contents view allows a designer to navigate betweendiagrams shown as folder icons that can be opened orclosed. A card or scenario object can be dragged betweendiagrams in the Contents view. Double-clicked an object toedit its properties. This makes it easy to organize, locateand modify information as the model grows.

Simulation

QuickCRC provides active simulation of an evolving design.Features include single stepping backwards, forwards orover a called scenario. The designer can jump to a specificlocation in the scenario stack of a multiple scenariosimulation.

To step through your design, just select a scenario andclick the Simulate button.

Instant Synchronization

Automatically maintain relationships between cards,scenarios and external agents as fluid design changes takeplace. For example, if a card references undefinedsubclasses or superclasses, those cards are automaticallygenerated.

Model other relationships between cards including aggre-gation and interface implementation. Name changes andcross-references between objects get updated instantly.

Inheritance Graph

View the class inheritance structure of a project with aninheritance graph . This concise graph is automaticallygenerated from card information regardless of how cardsare physically arranged or partitioned between diagrams.View or edit card properties by double-clicking a card namein the inheritance graph.

Import, Export & Error Checking

Locate errors or incomplete design with the projectverification command. List specified information to text orHTML for a design review or a coding specification.

Export project data to MacA&D or WinA&D tools fordetailed design or code generation. Use MacTranslator orWinTranslator to automatically generate CRC cards fromsource code.

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QuickCRC MacOSX is a Univeral Binaryapplication for PPC or Intel based Macs.

QuickCRC Windows runs on Windows XP,Vista or 7 with a 32 or 64 bit processor.