Design maxims

Object oriented design maxims

maxim:: (noun) A general truth or rule of conduct expressed in a sentence.

Lets use the term maxim to mean all the rules, laws, guidelines, principles, heuristics, strategies, patterns and idioms that are named by a standard phrase.

Maxims

• Acyclic dependencies principle
• Avoid downcasting
• Avoid equals
• Avoid inheritance for implementation
• Avoid side effects
• Behavioral completeness
• Big design up front
• Command query separation
• Common closure principle
• Common reuse principle
• Coupling and cohesion
• Dependency inversion principle
• Design by contract
• Don't burn your base class
• Don't expose mutable attributes
• Don't repeat yourself
• Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
• Encapsulate that which varies
• Encapsulation is hierarchical
• Fat interfaces
• Favor composition over inheritance
• Getters and setters
• Goto considered harmful
• Hide your decisions
• Impedance mismatch
• Information hiding
• Interface segregation principle
• Keep accessors and mutators separate
• Keep it simple
• Law of demeter
• Liskov substitution principle
• Model the real world
• Named constants
• No concrete base classes
• No silver bullet
• One responsibility rule
• Open closed principle
• Once and only once
• Premature optimization
• Program to the interface not the implementation
• Reuse release equivalence principle
• Single responsibility principle
• SeparationOfConcerns
• SingleChoicePrinciple
• SoftwareCrisis
• SoftwareReuse
• StableAbstractionsPrinciple
• StableDependenciesPrinciple
• Tell, don't ask
• YouAintGonnaNeedIt

Clumps of maxims

• JohnsonAndFootesHeuristics:

 * RecursionIntroduction.
 * EliminateCaseAnalysis.
 * ReduceTheNumberOfArguments.
 * ReduceTheSizeOfMethods.
 * ClassHierarchiesShouldBeDeepAndNarrow.
 * TheTopOfTheClassHierarchyShouldBeAbstract.
 * MinimizeAccessesToVariables.
 * SubclassesShouldBeSpecializations.
 * SplitLargeClasses.
 * FactorImplementationDifferencesIntoSubcomponents.
 * SeparateMethodsThatDoNotCommunicate.
 * SendMessagesToComponentsInsteadOfToSelf.
 * ReduceImplicitParameterPassing
* RielsHeuristics:
* BobMartinsPrinciples:
 * (SRP) The SingleResponsibilityPrinciple
 * (OCP) The OpenClosedPrinciple
 * (LSP) The LiskovSubstitutionPrinciple
 * (DIP) The DependencyInversionPrinciple
 * (ISP) The InterfaceSegregationPrinciple
 * (REP) The ReuseReleaseEquivalencePrinciple
 * (CCP) The CommonClosurePrinciple
 * (CRP) The CommonReusePrinciple
 * (ADP) The AcyclicDependenciesPrinciple
 * (SDP) The StableDependenciesPrinciple
 * (SAP) The StableAbstractionsPrinciple
* KenAuer1995:
 * DefineClassesByBehaviorNotStatePattern. 
 * ImplementBehaviorWithAbstractStatePattern. 
 * IdentifyMessageLayersPattern. 
 * DeferIdentificationOfStateVariablesPattern. 
 * EncapsulateConcreteStatePattern. 
 * UseLazyInitializationPattern. 
 * DefineDefaultValuesViaExplicitProtocolPattern.
* AlanDavis1995:
* CodeSmells