Tag: SOLID
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Cargo Cult in Software Development
The phenomenon of cargo cult is very common in the software industry. With this article I want to raise awareness for the problem of cargo cult and provide some examples of topics that are (in my experience) especially prone to it. The goal here is not to educate about those…
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SOLID Principles: Common Misconceptions
The SOLID principles for software design can be a helpful thinking and communication tool of a software developer, even if perhaps just as a reason to think about software design from another perspective. While there are many more software design principles that are arguably at least as important, the SOLID…
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SRP Misunderstood
The Single Reponsibility Principle (SRP) is commonly misunderstood. Often you might hear explanations like “a class should do only one thing”, sometimes even extended to methods. Here’s a heuristic that I think might help: This may not only lead to less-bad code, but as a side effect also to a…
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The SRP is not SoC
The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) aims to increase cohesion and to minimize the risk of breaking functionality through seemingly unrelated code changes. However, many misunderstand the SRP, thinking it means a class should only do one thing, or that the SRP can be applied to functions or architectural layers rather…
Raimund Krämer 