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UML FOR JAVA™ PROGRAMMERS
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UML FOR JAVA™ PROGRAMMERS

by Robert Cecil Martin
May 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 33m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 6. Principles of OOD

Principles of OOD

Reading chapters about notation is like a box of chocolate candy: After eating a few you start to crave meat. So let's dump the sugary notation for awhile and eat a nice, rare cheesburger.

When we look at a UML diagram, what are we looking for? How do we evaluate it? What are the principles of design that we should apply? In this chapter we will discuss five such principles that will help us evaluate whether a set of UML diagrams — or a batch of code, for that matter — are well designed.

Design Quality

What does it mean to be well designed? A system that is well designed is easy to understand, easy to change, and easy to ...

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