Contents tagged with oop

• Dependency Inversion Principle

  The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP) states that abstractions should not depend on details.  Details should depend upon abstractions.

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  Explicit Dependencies Principle … Read more

• Interface Segregation Principle

  The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) states that clients should not be forced to depend on methods that they do not use.  Interfaces belong to clients, not to libraries or hierarchies. Read more

• Liskov Substitution Principle

  The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) states that subtypes must be substitutable for their base types. Read more

• Open-Closed Principle

  The Open-Closed Principle (OCP) states that software entities (classes, modules, methods, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification Read more

• Single Responsibility Principle

  The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) states that a class should have only one reason to change. Read more

• Iceberg Class

  Although encapsulation is an oft-sited good thing to have in a design, there are many cases in which hiding an abundance of implementation behind private methods is undesirable.  Often, this … Read more

• Strategy Design Pattern

  The Strategy Design Pattern allows an object to have some or all of its behavior defined in terms of another object which follows a particular interface.  A particular instance of this interface … Read more