Software Engineering Made Easy: A Comprehensive Reference Guide for Writing Good Code

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2025

M. GählerSoftware Engineering Made Easyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1386-3_9

9. Other Common Topics

Marco Gähler¹  

(1)

Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

 

Here are a few more topics that are important for software engineering, but I didn’t manage to fit them into any of the previous chapters.

Performance Optimization

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

—Donald Knuth

No Optimization Needed

Performance is a commonly overestimated topic in programming. This has historic reasons. Computers used to be extremely slow and expensive. Therefore, it was worthwhile to spend a significant amount of time enhancing every aspect of your algorithm. Back in the day, low-level ...