394 ◾ Software Designers in Action: A Human-Centric Look at Design Work
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22.4.2 How Objects Evolve over Time
Two of the three observed teams started the course of design by listing nouns on the white-
board as object names (see Observation I), as observed by Dekel and Herbsleb (2007). e
designers started the design process by rst identifying the names of things that would
serve as components for the soware to be built (see Observation B). Such components are
likely to become class and object names in soware programs. e teams tried not to erase
them throughout the design process.
Some objects had been straightforwardly identied (e.g., “Signal” “Road,” and “Car”),
and others had been debated for quite ...