Excursion (3/3) Identification of Operations
Linguistic analysis of the problem description - extraction of verbs
Rules of thumb:
- which operations can be executed by a certain object
- not only the current requirements should be considered, but also reusability should be taken into account
- which events are expected
- which objects can react to these events
- which other events are raised in turn
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[cf.: R.J. Abbott, Program Design by Informal English Descriptions, CACM, Vol. 26, No. 11, 1983]