Chapter 6. Emphasis on Design
Design matters! Well-designed software is obvious to users and to the programmers who work on it. Well-designed software is useful and easy to use, maintain, extend, and understand. And when competition is intense, design is often the difference between winner and loser.
In order to achieve sustainable software development, software must be designed to support and enhance changeability. This is because agility is possible only with the ability to easily modify and extend the software. Imagine that you are tasked with creating a set of playground equipment. If the equipment you design requires a welding torch and hammer ...
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