CRUD: Create, Read, Update, Delete
The CRUD heuristic stands for Create, Read, Update, Delete. It comes from the world of relational databases, where those four actions represent the core operations you can perform on data in a table. When a software application exists primarily as a mechanism to get data into and out of a database, sometimes people will describe it as a “basic CRUD application.”
Although the CRUD heuristic has its roots in relational databases, it applies to any kind of system regardless of the kind of storage the system uses. Broaden your exploration by trying variations while creating, viewing, updating, and deleting each of the different kinds of entities that your software manages.
In some systems each of the four basic ...
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