Design

Successful software systems often live far longer than their original designers anticipated.

As developers, we're expected to turn out implementations proven by tests that we or others have written.

This paper deals with good software design principle.

Christopher Alexander's concept of centers and properties of living structures can help developers create pleasing, sustainable software designs.

In this article, we investigate what does it take to be an effective software designer in an agile development environment.

The consequences of poorly structured requirements obviously have enormous consequences on design.

Over the past 25 years, we've made great advances in tooling, technologies, and techniques that make software design more concrete.

Enabling continued, steady change requires that we integrate design corrections and adjustments into the natural course of development.

There can be significant benefits in thinking through a design until you get it "right enough" before launching into a major development effort.

Software designers and managers can find it challenging to agree on the "sweet spots" of their system that warrant their best design efforts.

Jon Bentley wrote his thesis on divide-and-conquer algorithms and came to greatly admire C.A.R.

One of the favorite activities in any of the architecture or design courses is to discuss antipatterns - design ideas hatched with good…

This article claims brevity can contribute to code beauty-clarity of purpose, expressive use of the programming language, and design elegance also play…

This paper discusses about the design of extensible classes.

In an ideal world, designers freely seek advice, ask for and offer constructive criticism, and openly discuss issues.

Design reviews are an essential part of any design process.

When designing I tend to go with the flow. I don't think deeply about why I'm making any particular decision.

Software development approaches all emphasize a core set of values and principles around which practices, techniques, and tools have emerged.

Have you ever tried to explain some aspect of your design and not known where to start Perhaps you had to present how you solved a problem or…

An exception condition occurs when an object or component, for some reason, can't fulfil a responsibility.

How should you design your software to detect, react, and recover from exceptional conditions If you follow Jim Shore's advice and design with a fail fast…

Different authors make different design choices, and their descriptions of the same pattern will vary.

Class characterization is a key step of object design.

In this paper the author explores the ways that have helped him to become a better designer.

A useful way to talk about design is to identify principles that lead to well-designed systems.

IT organizations are starting to recognize that having some level of enterprise standards can remove needless complexity from application portfolios…

Agile methods more specifically, test-driven development practices have begun to raise the software industry's awareness of automated…

Agile development focuses on accommodating program evolution.

The real world is often asynchronous. Our daily lives consist of many coordinated but asynchronous interactions.

Most software developers become preoccupied with the question of what makes good design at some point in their careers, usually after witnessing the effects…

The most annoying aspect of software development is debugging.

The activity of "design" includes many things, but certainly one of the most important aspects is interface specification.

Modeling is at the core of many disciplines, but it is especially important in engineering because it facilitates communication and constructs complex things…

How to modularize a program is one of the most general and important issues in software design.

The rising popularity of refactoring, tools such as JUnit, and agile methodologies such as extreme programming XP has brought a new style of design…

I occasionally come across people who describe their programming tasks as tedious, which is often the sign of a design problem.

In its first release of the .NET Framework, Microsoft has provided a defined method for adding declarative information metadata to runtime entities…

The author addresses the question: how do we achieve a fast program For many programmers, performance is something you pay continuous attention to as you…

One of the growing trends in software design is separating interface from implementation.

These days, practically everyone involved in developing software draws pictures that represent some aspect of the software or its requirements.

Software is an odd medium in which to construct something.

The author argues that test-first coding is not testing.

Thinking about how to visualize and reduce coupling.

The Pattern Almanac 2000 Addison Wesley, 2000 lists around 500 software-related patterns, and given this reading list, the curious developer has no time to…

The first program I wrote on a salary was scientific calculation software in Fortran.

Software design is not easy-not easy to do, teach, or evaluate.