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Notes on Software Quality

From this article: https://lethain.com/quality/

Domain-Driven Design Distilled by Vaughn Vernon is a good overview of domain-driven design, which is an approach to software development that applies particularly well to working in problem domains with high essential complexity
“Define errors out of existence” is an idea from John Ousterhout’s Philosophy of Software Design, and described with some great examples in this page from the TCL Lang wiki
The distinction between essential and accidental complexity, discussed in Fred Brooks’ No Silver Bullet from Mythical Man Month is a valuable dimension for reasoning about complexity (and consequently, quality)
Kent Beck’s Tidy First? discusses a number of strategies for addressing accidental quality issues within a codebase, mostly those caused by inconsistent implementations across a large codebase. I wrote up some notes on this book a while back
Kent Beck’s Tidy First? discusses a number of strategies for addressing accidental quality issues within a codebase, mostly those caused by inconsistent implementations across a large codebase. I wrote up some notes on this book a while back