Laws Overview

Laws of software development, laws of programming, laws of software engineering.

Alphabetical List of Software Development Laws

• Amara's Law
• Amdahl's Law
• Anderson's Law
• Brooks's Law
• Conway's Law
• Cunningham's Law
• Demeter's Law (Law of Demeter)
• Law of Diminishing Returns
• Don't Repeat Yourself (The DRY Principle)
• Gall's Law
• Goodhart's Law
• Hebb's Law
• Hofstadter's Law
• Kerckhoff's Principle
• Knuth's Optimization Principle
• Law of Large Numbers
• Linus's Law
• Moore's Law
• Murphy's Law
• Ninety-Ninety Rule
• Norvig's Law
• Pareto Principle
• Parkinson's Law
• Postel's Law (The Robustness Principle)
• Peter Principle
• Parkinson's Law
• Price's Law, Angulation of
• Shalloway's Law
• Simple Design (XP Simplicity Rules)
• Software Architecture, Laws of
• Software Estimates, 5 Laws of
• Sturgeon's Law
• Vogels' Law
• Wirth's Law