Sustainable Software Development With Clean C++
Sustainable Software Development With Clean C++
About the Book
This book has been retired!
After a full revision and completion during the last year, the completely revised and updated book will be published by Apress Media LLC under the title "Clean C++ - Sustainable Software Development With C++17" (http://www.apress.com/la/book/9781484227923). The publishing date will be approximately at the end of 2017/beginning of 2018. The book will be proofread and edited by professionals, thus it will provide a much better reading experience. Furthermore, it will be updated according to the latest developments in the C++ domain and takes also a few of the newest C++17 features into account.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all readers for purchasing its predecessor here.
Best regards,
Stephan
(July 2017)
About the Author
Table of Contents
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- Foreword
- About The Author
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Introduction
- Why C++?
- Who this book is for
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Conventions used in this book
- Sidebars
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Code samples
- Coding style
- Source code repository
- UML diagrams
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This book is work in progress
- Outlook: upcoming chapters and topics
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Part 1: Principles and Rules
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1. Build a safety net!
- The need for testing
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Introduction into testing
- Unit Tests
- What about QA?
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Rules For Good Unit Tests
- Test code quality
- Unit test naming
- Unit test independence
- One assertion per test
- Independent initialization of Unit Test environments
- Exclude getters and setters
- Exclude 3 party code
- Exclude external systems
- And what about the database?
- Don’t mix test code with production code
- Tests must run fast
- Test doubles (Fake objects)
- C++ Test frameworks
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2. Be principled
- What is a principle?
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Important basic principles
- KISS
- YAGNI
- DRY
- Information hiding
- High cohesion
- Loose coupling
- Be careful with optimizations
- Principle of Least Astonishment (PLA)
- The Boy Scout Rule
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3. Basics of clean C++
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Good names
- Names should be self-explanatory
- Choose names at an appropriate level of abstraction
- Avoid redundancy when choosing a name
- Avoid cryptic abbreviations
- Avoid Hungarian notation and prefixes
- Avoid using the same name for different purposes
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Comments
- Avoid comments
- Do not comment obvious things
- Documentation generation from source code
- Don’t disable code with comments
- Don’t write block comments
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Functions
- One thing, no more!
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Let them be small
- “But the call time overhead!”
- Function naming
- Use intention-revealing names
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Arguments and return values
- Number of arguments
- Avoid flag arguments
- Avoid output arguments
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Don’t pass or return 0 (NULL,
nullptr) - Strategies to avoid regular pointers
- Const correctness
- Write exception-safe code
- Formatting
- Don’t allow undefined behaviour
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Resource management
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Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII)
- STL smart pointers
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Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII)
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About old C-style in C++ projects
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Prefer C++ strings and streams over old C-style
char*- Avoid using printf(), sprintf(), gets(), etc.
- Prefer STL containers over simple C-style arrays
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Use C++ casts instead of old C-style casts
- reinterpret_cast and dynamic_cast are bad!
- Avoid macros
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Prefer C++ strings and streams over old C-style
- Type-rich programming
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Take advantage of
<algorithm>- Sorting and output of a container
- Comparing two sequences
- Take advantage of Boost
- Logging
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Good names
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4. Object Orientation
- Object-Oriented Thinking
- Classes
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Rules for good class design
- Keep classes small
- Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
- Open-Closed Principle (OCP)
- Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
- Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)
- Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
- Misuses of classes
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1. Build a safety net!
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Part 2: Practices and Patterns
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5. Test Driven Development
- The workflow of TDD
- TDD By Example: Roman Numerals
- When we should not use TDD
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6. Design Patterns and Idioms
- What is a design pattern?
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Some patterns, and when to use them
- Strategy
- Template Method
- Composite
- Command
- Command Processor
- Decorator
- State
- Observer
- Factory Method
- Prototype
- Adapter
- Facade
- Money Class
- Special Case Object
- Actor-Role
- Fluent Interface
- Pipeline
- What is an idiom?
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Common C++ Idioms
- Function-like objects (Functor)
- Virtual constructor
- Traits
- Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP)
- (Private) Pointer To Implementation (PIMPL)
- Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII)
- The Barton–Nackman trick
- Non-copyable Mixin
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Appendix A: Small UML Guide
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Class Diagrams
- Class
- Interface
- Association
- Generalization
- Dependency
- Stereotypes
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Class Diagrams
- Bibliography
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5. Test Driven Development
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