March 2012
Beginner
84 pages
2h 12m
English
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Appendix A. The Laws of Software Design
This appendix summarizes all of the actual laws discussed in this book:
The purpose of software is to help people.
The Equation of Software Design:
where:
- D
Stands for the desirability of the change.
- Vn
Stands for value now.
- Vf
Stands for future value.
- Ei
Stands for the effort of implementation.
- Em
Stands for the effort of maintenance.
This is the primary law of software design. As time goes on, this equation reduces to:
Which demonstrates that it is more important to reduce the effort of maintenance than it is to reduce the effort of implementation.
The Law of Change: The longer your program exists, the more probable it is that any piece of it will have to change.
The Law of Defect Probability: The chance of introducing a defect into your program is proportional to the size of the changes you make to it.
The Law of Simplicity: The ease of maintenance of any piece of software is proportional to the simplicity of its individual pieces.
The Law of Testing: The degree to which you know how your software behaves is the degree to which you have accurately tested it.
That’s it. Many more facts and ideas were discussed in this book, but these six items are the laws of software design. Note that of all of these, the most important to bear in mind are the purpose of software, ...
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