Selecting Attributes
(Tutorial Page 9)
  • Look for all values associated with an object that are important to an application.
  • Be sure that an attribute describes one aspect of the object; an attribute should be atomic. (First Normal Form from data modeling).
  • Bad attributes:
    1. Name
    2. NameAndAddress

  • Good attributes:
    1. FirstName
    2. LastName
    3. Street Address

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