QuickCRC Linux 1.0
Software Modeling With CRC Cards

Placitas, NM ­ March 26, 2002 - Excel Software today announced QuickCRC for
Linux, an object-oriented design tool that automates CRC (Class,
Responsibilities and Collaborations) cards.  Software designers can quickly
identify object classes, relationships and related information before writing
code.  CRC cards are well suited to lightweight development approaches like
Extreme Programming or as a front-end to larger modeling efforts using the
Unified Modeling Language (UML).  Books describing CRC cards include
Designing Object-Oriented Software by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Brian Wilkerson
and Laura Wiener, Using CRC Cards by Nancy Wilkinson and The CRC Card Book by
David Bellin and Susan Suchman Simone.

QuickCRC provides a workspace for quickly creating cards, adding attributes,
responsibilities and collaborative relationships between cards.  Information
entered through dialogs or by direct on-screen editing is automatically
updated throughout the model and reflected in reciprocal relationships
between cards.  Designers identify external agents that form the system
boundary and create and simulate scenarios that exercise the software design.
In addition to grouping cards and scenarios into separate diagrams, each card
can be assigned a namespace.  Namespaces can partition large projects, map
cards to different code folders or allow greater selectivity when arranging,
listing or printing cards.

The Cards From Text dialog is an alternative way to create cards by typing
names or selecting words from a text specification. The automatically
generated inheritance graph can concisely express the relationships between
thousands of cards. Information entered on cards and scenarios can be
verified, imported, exported or listed as text or HTML reports.  Printed
cards can be used during interactive CRC team sessions.

QuickCRC saves a project as an XML file, making design information easily
accessible to a wide range of industry tools like editors and parsers.
Projects created with QuickCRC Linux can be directly opened and edited from
the Windows or Macintosh edition of QuickCRC making design work shareable
across platforms.

CRC cards can be used to quickly collect information in working team sessions
before expressing a design in UML.  QuickCRC provides a data link to MacA&D,
WinA&D or QuickUML for UML modeling.  It also works with MacTranslator and
WinTranslator to automatically generate CRC cards from existing C++, Java or
Delphi code.

QuickCRC Linux is priced at $295.  Site licensing information, product
descriptions and online ordering are available at www.excelsoftware.com.
Excel Software has over 15 years of experience in providing tools to
thousands of Macintosh, Windows and Linux developers in over 30 countries.

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