When you name classes, consider the following guidelines:

• Use a noun for a class name, for example Customer or Address to distinguish classes from actions and processes. For better readability, capitalize the first letter of each word, for example, CustomerDetails.
• Ensure that your class name is descriptive and clearly conveys the purpose of the class.
• Avoid using acronyms and abbreviations that are difficult to decode. The exception are common acronyms, such as HTML.
• Avoid including underscores (_) in class names.
• Pega Platform provides a set of base classes that includes the Work-, History-, and Data- classes. Create new classes only under the organization base class, for example, UPlusTelco-.
• The system displays labels for class names on some of the forms, worklists, reports, and other areas of an application. The system also displays a short description for the class. Therefore, use class names that are self-explanatory and reflect the purpose of the work. Avoid using class names that reflect a status or action, instead of a unit of work.
• Choose class names that support pattern inheritance, as well as directed inheritance. For more information about class inheritance, see Understanding class hierarchy and inheritance.
• To distinguish hierarchy position and inheritance, use class names that visually reflect pattern inheritance. For subclasses, include the names of all parent classes, including your top-level class, separated by dashes. For example, if the parent class YourCoLoan-Request includes child classes for mortgage and car loan applications, name the child classes YourCoLoan-Request-Mortgage and YourCoLoan-Request-Auto.
• Name related objects with consistent prefixes, so that you can quickly locate similar classes in an alphabetical list.
• Use the same naming conventions for class groups as for classes.