A.2. Guidelines in Alphabetical Order

Here are the guidelines in alphabetical order with the page number on which they appear.

"A Rose by Any Other Name Is Not a Rose" on page 13

"Adapt a Prefactoring Attitude" on page 33

"Adopt and Adapt" on page 128

"Avoid Premature Generalization" on page 160

"Avoid Premature Inheritance" on page 64

"Be Ready to Import and Export" on page 143

"Build Flexibility for Testing" on page 101

"Business Rules Are a Business unto Themselves" on page 152

"Clump Data so That There Is Less to Think About" on page 16

"Communicate with Your Code" on page 28

"Consider Failure an Expectation, Not an Exception" on page 148

"Consider Privacy" on page 153

"Consistency Is Simplicity" on page 32

"Create Interface Contracts" on page 26

"Decide on a Strategy to Deal with Deviations and Errors" on page 36

"Declaration over Execution" on page 63

"Decouple with Associations" on page 110

"Do a Little and Pass the Buck" on page 130

"Do a Little Job Well and You May Be Called upon Often" on page 80

"Document Your Assumptions and Your Decisions" on page 34

"Don't Change What It Is" on page 141

"Don't Let the Cold Air in" on page 159

"Don't Overclassify" on page 62

"Don't Reinvent the Wheel" on page 11

"Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)" on page 33

"Don't Speed Until You Know Where You Are Going" on page 40

"Exceptional Guideline" on page 3

"Explicitness Beats Implicitness" on page 29

"Figure Out How to Migrate Before You Migrate" on page 92

"Get Something Working" on page 123

"If It Can't Be Tested, Don't Require It" on page 53

"If It Has Collection Operations, Make It a Collection" on page 68

"If You Forget Security, You're Not Secure" on page 58

"Honor the Class Maxims" on page 71

"Know Who It Is" on page 94

"More Is Sometimes Less" on page 132

"Most Strings Are more than just a String" on page 19

"Never Be Silent" on page 73

"Never Let a Constant Slip into Code" on page 20

"Nothing Is Perfect" on page 104

"Overloading Functions Can Become Overloading" on page 82

"Perform a Retrospective After Each Release" on page 96

"Place Methods in Classes Based on What They Need" on page 75

"Plan for Testing" on page 55

"Plan Globally, Develop Locally" on page 51

"Plan Your Logging Strategy" on page 136

"Prototypes Are Worth a Thousand Words" on page 22

"Report Meaningful User Messages" on page 38

"See What Condition Your Condition Is in" on page 112

"Separate Concerns to Make Smaller Concerns" on page 86

"Separate Policy from Implementation" on page 81

"Split Interfaces" on page 122

"Splitters Can Be Lumped More Easily than Lumpers Can Be Split" on page 15

"Test or Production: That Is the Question" on page 100

"Test the Interface, Not the Implementation" on page 121

"The Easiest Code to Debug Is That Which Is Not Written" on page 131

"The Spreadsheet Conundrum" on page 41

"Think About the Big Picture" on page 24

"Think Interfaces, Not Inheritance" on page 77

"To Text or Not to Text" on page 66

"Use the Client's Language" on page 151

"Use the Same Layout to Get the Same Layout" on page 124

"Validate, Validate, Validate" on page 27

"When in Doubt, Indirect" on page 134

"When You're Abstract, Be Abstract All the Way" on page 17