In this section, we try to find out if some elements should be broken into more simple ones. The reason for doing so is that, if an element is composed of many parts, applications will have to break it for sorting and selection purposes. Thus it's better to break the elements right now at the source. Recomposing it will be easier at the application level.
Breaking the elements provides more clarity at the UI level. Therefore, at this level we will avoid (as much as possible) the well-known last-name/first-name inversion problem.
As an example for this problem, let's take the buyer's name. During the interview, we noticed that the name is expressed in various ways on the forms:
|
Form |
How the name is expressed |
|---|---|
|
Delivery certificate |
Mr Joe Smith |
|
Sales contract |
Smith, Joe |
We notice that
There is a salutation element, Mr
The element
nameis too imprecise; we really have a first name and a last nameOn the sales contract, the comma after our last name should really be excluded...