Mining High-Level Use Cases Descriptions for Objects
The traditional wisdom is that you develop your list of objects by detailing all the use cases and then extracting all the nouns. I find that you can get to the same place much faster by describing the application at a high level (as kind of a mission statement for an application) and isolating the nouns from that description.
Here is the mission statement for the BFG Web site:
A user enters the site. There the user is presented with a list of products organized into categories. He can place products into his shopping cart, select a shipping address from his address book or enter it manually, specify an existing credit card from his wallet or enter the card number manually, and approve the ...
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