Book description
Have you ever felt frustrated working with someone else’s code? Difficult-to-maintain source code is a big problem in software development today, leading to costly delays and defects. Be part of the solution. With this practical book, you’ll learn 10 easy-to-follow guidelines for delivering C# software that’s easy to maintain and adapt. These guidelines have been derived from analyzing hundreds of real-world systems. Written by consultants from the Software Improvement Group (SIG), this book provides clear and concise explanations, with advice for turning the guidelines into practice.
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Table of contents
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Preface
- The Topic of This Book: Ten Guidelines for Building Maintainable Software
- Why You Should Read This Book
- Who Should Read This Book
- What This Book Is Not
- The Follow-up Book
- About the Software Improvement Group
- About This Edition
- Related Books
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Generic Names for Elements of Source Code
- Using Code Examples
- Safari® Books Online
- How to Contact Us
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Write Short Units of Code
- 3. Write Simple Units of Code
- 4. Write Code Once
- 5. Keep Unit Interfaces Small
- 6. Separate Concerns in Modules
- 7. Couple Architecture Components Loosely
- 8. Keep Architecture Components Balanced
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9. Keep Your Codebase Small
- Motivation
- How to Apply the Guideline
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Common Objections to Keeping the Codebase Small
- Objection: Reducing the Codebase Size Is Impeded by Productivity Measures
- Objection: Reducing the Codebase Size is Impeded by the Programming Language
- Objection: System Complexity Forces Code Copying
- Objection: Splitting the Codebase Is Impossible Because of Platform Architecture
- Objection: Splitting the Codebase Leads to Duplication
- Objection: Splitting the Codebase Is Impossible Because of Tight Coupling
- 10. Automate Tests
- 11. Write Clean Code
- 12. Next Steps
- A. How SIG Measures Maintainability
- Index
Product information
- Title: Building Maintainable Software, C# Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2016
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491954522
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