Ideas • Create code Elegant and Efficient –Bjarne Stroustrup • Create code Simple and Direct –Grady Booch • Create code looks like written by someone who cares –Michael Feathers
Code Principles • Readability Use Meaningful Names for Classes, Methods, and Variables Follow coding guidelines: e.g., read the Java Style Reference • KISS (Keep It Simple by K. Johnson) for your reader Small functions that do one thing • DRY (Do not Repeat Yourself): Avoid Code Bloat
idea • Just as the source code a design should be clean and that include Keep it Simple A design that is more than what we need smells So, abstract classes, interfaces, design patterns, and other infrastructure elements that do not solve a problem and are there to over-design the system are as bad as their absence when needed. Eliminate design smells is the goal of design principles.
A class should have only one responsibility SRP is all about understanding when and how to apply decoupling. Why? Because each responsibility implies a possibility of a change.
Example • Imagine that you need a piece of software to read data from diverse sensor devices (a heart rate monitor, a brain-computer interface, a skin conductance sensor, etc.) • And you need to store that information for future use also. • For some sensors, we need to gather data directly from a serial port. • For others, we use a WebSockets (third-party APIs help us get data from the physical device). • To store data, we want to be able to store data in a local file (text file) or in a database
Software entities (functions, classes, modules, etc.) should be open for extension but closed for modification. OCP is all about achieving changes adding new code, not changing the old code that already works. Closure cannot be complete. There will always be some change against which the entity is not closed. Thus, the closure must be strategic. As a developer, make educated guesses about the likely kinds of changes that the application could suffer over time. OCP means that we do not want to modify the class, i.e., write code into a class. Once you create a class and put that class in a production environment, you do not want to touch that class. OCP can be satisfied with a simple and effective heuristic: inheritance
Example • Imagine you are asked to create a program to draw geometric shapes on screen. • We want to draw circles and draw squares; maybe later, we would ask for draw triangles, etc.
Subtypes must be substitutable for all their base types. i.e., a child should always be better than its parent. And, “better” means more behaviors, not less. That principle is the answer proposed by Barbara Liskov (1988) to the questions: • What are the characteristics of the best inheritance hierarchies? • What are the traps that could create hierarchies that jeopardize the OCP?
Example • Imagine you already have a class Circle, and you are asked to create a class Cylinder. • Or maybe you have a class Rectangle, and you are asked to create a class Square (a square is a rectangle with the same width and height). • Or you have a class LinkedList, and you are asked to create a class PersistentLinkedList (one that writes out its elements to a stream and can read them back later). If you are tempted to use inheritance from Circle to Cylinder, or from Rectangle to Square, or from LinkedList to PersistentLinkedList, i.e., create a parent-child relationship for any of these cases, you will have problems.
Example • The class Cylinder would eliminate the method calculateArea() in Circle since calculating an area does not make sense. It is impossible to use our Cylinder object to replace a Circle object. • The class Square will make the methods setWidth() and setHeight() to modify both width and height attributes (they are equal in a square, right?). Therefore, it will be impossible to use a Square object to replace a Rectangle object. • The class PersistentLinkedList needs persistent (serializable) objects while LinkedList does not. Moreover, probably, PersistentLinkedList would need to throw some exceptions.
• Clients should not be forced to depend on methods that they do not use. • ISP deals with the disadvantage of “fat” interfaces (or abstract classes). • ISP recommends to broke up interfaces with a lot of methods into several interfaces.
• High-level modules should not depend on low-level modules. Both should depend on abstractions. • Traditional procedural programming creates software structures in which high-level modules depend on low-level modules. • The dependency structure of a well-designed object-oriented program is “inverted” with respect to the dependency structure that generally results from traditional procedural methods. • DIP is what makes software fulfill the object-oriented paradigm.
• Hollywood Principle: “do not call us, we will call you.” • Review DIP whenever one class sends a message to another. DIP is about calling methods. • When doing that, depend on abstractions (use abstract classes or interfaces).
Read: • Design Patterns: Abstraction and Reuse of Object- Oriented Design Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides • European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming October 1993 • This will become:
javiergs
takonda
zsmb
tasshi
izumin5210
taro28
little_rubyist
cer
satoshi7190
fukubaka0825
seike460
dero1to
oniak3ibm
bermonpainter
samanthasiow
sonatard
michaelherold
jacobian
soudai
tammyeverts
palkan
kneath
tammielis
destraynor
chriscoyier
![CSE 564 Software Design Javier Gonzalez-Sanchez, Ph.D. [email protected] Fall 2022](https://files.speakerdeck.com/presentations/a97b49ef90e94e1196b5096761dd917b/slide_32.jpg){kind=link}