16.4. GRASP: Patterns of General Principles in Assigning Responsibilities

To summarize the preceding introduction:

  • The skillful assignment of responsibilities is extremely important in object design.

  • Determining the assignment of responsibilities often occurs during the creation of interaction diagrams, and certainly during programming.

  • Patterns are named problem/solution pairs that codify good advice and principles often related to the assignment of responsibilities.

Question:What are the GRASP patterns?
Answer:They describe fundamental principles of object design and responsibility assignment, expressed as patterns.

Understanding and being able to apply these principles during the creation of interaction diagrams is important because a software ...

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