Avoiding Dependencies Between Layers As part of the S.O.L.I.D. design principles, the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) provides guidance for ensuring layers within the application avoid unnecessary dependencies from coupling. DIP ensures each layer’s modules remain independent of one another and should depend on abstractions instead of concrete details, increasing usability and flexibility to change. In…
Providing Focused Behaviors for Classes As part of the S.O.L.I.D. design principles, the Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) supports other S.O.L.I.D. principles in providing classes with focused behavior by ensuring interfaces inherited by classes remain lean and focused on specific behaviors. To illustrate ISP, I’ll use examples from the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) article. I’ll begin…
Keeping Class Behavior Focused As part of the S.O.L.I.D. design principles, the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) ensures when designing classes, the user interface must operate by contact by ensuring during run-time, each object should be replaceable by objects instantiated by a subtype of that class or vice versa. For example, subtype classes (derived) must not…
Supporting Change Without Breaking Software As part of the S.O.L.I.D. design principles, the Open–Closed Principle (OCP) ensures parts of software (classes) are open for extension, but closed for modification. In other words, you should be able to modify a class’ behavior without modifying its code. New methods are added by adding new classes without changing…
Limiting Class Scope As part of the S.O.L.I.D. design principles, the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) ensures each class should only have one responsibility. This principle proactively ensures classes begin with a narrow focus, preventing future changes from affecting other parts of the application. In my previous article OOP: Class Design, I illustrated how a class…
Ensuring software remains understandable, flexible, and maintainable In response to common design difficulties inherit within many software systems, a series of design patterns were integrated together to form the acronym, S.O.L.I.D., which representing a specific principle. In addition to producing programming code and architecture which is understandable, flexible, and maintainable, it avoids code which is…
Leveraging Encapsulation to Protecting Data & Behavior Implementation With my class requirements defined in my Class Design – Step 1 – Requirements article, I’m now ready to define the details of my Employee class. As demonstrated in my Inheritance article, I designed an Employee class which serves as a parent class for the Supervisor class.…
