Object Oriented Design Principles Cheat Sheet — II

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KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)

Keep it simple, avoid complexities => clear to understand, easy to debug, easy to maintain

DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) — DIE (Duplication is Evil)

Avoid duplication — Consider modularizing functionality that you use more than once

- If you have a repeated piece of code, move inside a new function

- If you have a function that you’ve defined in several places, then move it into a common module.

- If the same applies to your module, consider turning it into a common library.

YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It)

Avoid over-engineering (code bloat), implement only necessary requirements.

Curly’s Law — Do One Thing

A entity (class, function, variable) should mean one thing, and one thing only.

Law of Demeter — Don’t talk to strangers

Avoid coupling.

A method of an object may only call methods of:

- The object itself.

- An argument of the method.

- Any object created within the method.

- Any direct properties/fields of the object.

Inversion of Control — Hollywood Principle, “Don’t call us, we’ll call you”

Can achieve by using:

• Factory Pattern
• Service Locator Pattern: Instead of instantiating dependent class itself, it gets an implementation from the service locator.
• Some argue that it is an anti-pattern which obscures dependencies and makes software harder to test.
• Dependency Injection:
• To understand Dependency Injection, firstly I should give some details about IoC (Inversion of Control):
• Inversion of Control — is to provide any kind of callback, instead of acting ourself directly. It enables the creation of dependent objects to be inverted. It helps designing testable, maintainable and extensible loosely coupled classes.
• Using IoC, you are not new’ing up your objects. IoC containers (DI frameworks) will do that and manage the lifetime of them.
• Dependency Injection — is a more specific version of IoC pattern, where implementations are passed into an object through constructors/setters/service lookups, which the object will ‘depend’ on in order to behave correctly.
• Template Method Pattern
• It is kind of IoC without using DI.
• Strategy Pattern

Boy-Scout Rule

Refactoring (Uncle Bob) — always leave the code behind in a better state than you found it to avoid technical debt

Linus’s Law

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. — recommends software reviewing process where multiple developers inspect the piece of code before it’s accepted and merged.

Brooks’s Law

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Happy Coding!