Software Architect's Handbook

Software Development Principles and Practices

One of the main goals for software architects is to design high-quality software applications. There are a number of software design principles and best practices that can be applied to achieve that goal.

Software architects can apply these principles and practices when designing software architectures and encourage developers to use them in their implementations. These principles and practices are used to improve quality, simplify maintenance, increase reusability, find defects, and make software systems easier to test.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Designing orthogonal software systems, including a focus on loose coupling and high cohesion
• Minimizing complexity in a software ...