Where to start when doing a Domain Model?

Posted by devoured elysium on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by devoured elysium
Published on 2010-06-10T03:03:45Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 3:12 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 231

Let's say I've made a list of concepts I'll use to draw my Domain Model. Furthermore, I have a couple of Use Cases from which I did a couple of System Sequence Diagrams.

When drawing the Domain Model, I never know where to start from:

  1. Designing the model as I believe the system to be. This is, if I am modelling a the human body, I start by adding the class concepts of Heart, Brain, Bowels, Stomach, Eyes, Head, etc.
  2. Start by designing what the Use Cases need to get done. This is, if I have a Use Case which is about making the human body swallow something, I'd first draw the class concepts for Mouth, Throat, Stomatch, Bowels, etc.

The order in which I do things is irrelevant? I'd say probably it'd be best to try to design from the Use Case concepts, as they are generally what you want to work with, not other kind of concepts that although help describe the whole system well, much of the time might not even be needed for the current project. Is there any other approach that I am not taking in consideration here? How do you usually approach this?

Thanks

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about subjective

Related posts about object-oriented-design