Principles and Practices

Here’s a random list with some principles and practices that I think every developer should be familiar with. Please add a comment with the ones I have forgotten.

Principles:

• DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself
• KISS – Keep It Simple and Stupid
• Convention over Configuration
• Composition over Inheritance
• Tell Don’t Ask
• Law of Demeter
• CQS – Command/Query Separation
• S.O.L.I.D

Practices:

• TDD – Test Driven Development (The Three Laws of TDD)
• BDD – Behavior Driven Development
• Code Refactoring
• Pair Programming
• Sit Together
• Collective Code Ownership
• Continuous Integration
• Code Review