A Catalogue of Object-Oriented Design Heuristics

Object-oriented design is a process of identifying relevant objects, factoring them into classes, organizing hierarchically, and establishing dynamic collaborations among the objects. It is a difficult process especially for novice designers. In order to guide the novices, software engineers used some hints, guidelines and tips to communicate design experience from the expert. Design heuristic is common design problems that developers encounter during software development. This knowledge from the experienced designers is used to guide the novices. Design heuristic is an encapsulation of the design problem and its solution. Several works related to heuristics for object-oriented design have been presented in the past few years.