Software Development Axioms, 2nd Edition
Software Development Axioms, 2nd Edition
Simple Rules for Higher Quality
About the Book
Welcome to the Second Edition of this book!
These axioms, when followed diligently,
- applies no matter what language/framework you are in,
- improves quality,
- becomes deploy-friendly,
- provides fewer and shorter troubleshooting events!
If you are a student of software, this is all the stuff they should be teaching you, but aren't!
I have been building large-scale systems for over 30 years, and ultimately, a small number of simple rules deliver higher quality implementations. The software I build runs factories in real time, and unhandled exceptions are not an option! Neither is constantly restarting applications; I have direct evidence that my apps run for literally months without shutting them down!
Using care up-front pays back handsomely with fewer and shorter troubleshooting events.
Face it: those who maintain and deploy systems (and their users) we "throw over the wall" don't have the time or inclination to deal with "mysterious" failures that leave logs filled with cryptic stack dumps, or worse yet, little or no trace at all.
It's in our power to put an end to their pain. Dig in, and Level Up!
About the Author
About the Contributors
Artwork
Early Reviewer
Early Reviewer
Table of Contents
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Preface
- Second Edition
- About the Cover
-
Software Development Axioms
- Terms of Endearment
- Axiom
- Dogma
- Habit
- Introducing the Axioms to a Codebase
- Be Lazy
- What’s Next?
- That One’s A “True”
- The Egg
- Closing Safely
- Rube Goldberg 3.0
- Unmanaged Code Considered Harmful
- No Wonder Software Works Like Shit!
- Are You Using Threads for Everything Yet?
- Service Container is the Best Thing Since Timesliced Bread
- Tales From The Factory
- Using Annotations in an IoC Protocol
- Code Without Tests is Like a Life Without Sunshine
- Don’t Float Away
- A Journey into the Depths of Hell, aka Interop
-
If I See Another
NullPointerExceptionI’m Gonna Yak! - PSA For Control Structures
- Protect Your Code From “Joey”
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Axioms: Input Validation
- Trust No One
- Help Others
- Say Something Righteous!
- Special CLR Section
- Special Javascript Section
- Defense in Depth
- Summary
-
Axioms: Naming
- Length
- Renaming
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Axioms: Guarantee of non-NULL
- Collections
- Object-oriented Programming
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Axioms: Immutability and Deep Protection
- Instances
- Collections
- Collection Elements
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Axioms: Caller Controls Context
- Technique
- Special .NET Section
-
Axioms: Error Propagation
- Grrrr, Fire Bad!!!
- Top-Level Contexts
- Don’t make Decisions for the Caller
- Don’t Strip Information
- Fucking and Punching
-
Axioms: Error Control
- Foreign Code
- Logging
- Special Java Section
- Special IDE Section
- Resources and Error Control
- Another IDE Epic Fail
- Reducing Burden
- Special Java Section
-
Don’t Catch
NullPointerException - Visual Aid
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Axioms: Intra-function Organization
- Formatting and Whitespace
- Documentation Comments
- Size
- Fail Fast
- Data Flow
- One Line, One Statement
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Axioms: Handling Resources
- Using Resources
- Accepting Resources
- RAII Bye Bye
- File Names
- Other Resources
- Format Your Way out of a Paper Bag
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Axioms: Lifecycle
- Lifecycle Start
- Lifecycle Stop
- Duals
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Axioms: Taint
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NULLis Taint -
unsignedis Taint -
IDisposable/AutoCloseableis Taint -
Special .NET Section:
async/awaitis Taint
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Axioms: Multi-threading
- Debugging
- Data flow
- Sharing
- Thread-safety
- Use Platform Tools
- The UI Thread
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Axioms: Writing Tests
- Prototyping the Design
- Positive and Negative
- More Greek than Italian
- Three from Column A
- Tests are Code Too
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Axioms: Troubleshooting
- Home Sweet Debugger
- Playing Away
- Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity-Jig
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Special .NET Section:
TraceSwitch
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Axioms: SQL
- Not String Processing
- Use Parameter Markers
- Use Configuration
-
Dynamic
WHERE - Stored Procedures Suck at Dynamic SQL
- SQL Is Code Too!
- Don’t Rewrite History
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Axioms: XML
- Use High-level Tooling
- Use Writer Tooling
- Use DOM Tooling
- Use XSL Transforms
- List of Axioms
-
Epilogue
- Second Edition Epilogue
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