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What is object oriented design? What is it all about? What are it’s benefits? What are its costs? An article on objectmentor.com.

Article by Robert C. Martin about “Design Principles and Design Patterns“.

Principles of Class Design:

• SRP – The Single Responsibility Principle
  A class should have one, and only one, reason to change.
• OCP – The Open Closed Principle
  You should be able to extend a classes behavior, without modifying it.
• LSP – The Liskov Substitution Principle
  Derived classes must be substitutable for their base classes.
• DIP – The Dependency Inversion Principle
  Depend on abstractions, not on concretions.
• ISP – The Interface Segregation Principle
  Make fine grained interfaces that are client specific.

Principles about package cohesion:

• REP – The Release Reuse Equivalency Principle
  The granule of reuse is the granule of release.
• CCP – The Common Closure Principle
  Classes that change together are packaged together.
• CRP – The Common Reuse Principle
  Classes that are used together are packaged together.

Principles about couplings between packages:

• ADP – The Acyclic Dependencies Principle
  The dependency graph of packages must have no cycles.
• SDP – The Stable Dependencies Principle
  Depend in the direction of stability.
• SAP – The Stable Abstractions Principle
  Abstractness increases with stability.

Other principles:

• LoD – Law of Demeter
• DBC – Design by Contract
• SoC – Separation of Concerns
• DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself (Once and Only Once)

• GRASP – General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns

Wellknown authors:

• Martin Fowler
• Robert C. Martin (Unlce Bob)
• Grady Booch
• Bertrand Meyer
• Tom DeMarco
• Kent Beck
• Ward Cunningham
• Alistair Cockburn

Methodology:

• Defensive Programming

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