Chapter 1. Getting Started with DDD

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

—Steve Jobs

We strive to produce quality in the software we develop. We achieve some quality by using tests to help us avoid delivering software with a fatal number of bugs. Yet, even if we could produce completely bug-free software, that in itself does not necessarily mean that a quality software model is designed. The software model—the way the software expresses the solution to the business goal being sought—could still suffer greatly. Delivering software with few defects is obviously good. Still, we can reach higher for a well-designed software model that explicitly reflects the intended business objective, and our work may even ...

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