Domain-Driven Design
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a term introduced in the 2004 book of the same name—http://domaindrivendesign.org/books/evans_2003, though most of its principles have been around quite a bit longer among practitioners of object-oriented analysis and design. Indeed, the core of DDD can be thought of as deriving from the simulation techniques employed in Simula 67 – a language that influenced the design of C++.
Simply put, much software (particularly "enterprise" software) is created as a solution to a particular problem. Therefore, software should be designed by software experts in conjunction with domain experts. They should use a shared model of the problem domain, so that it's clear the whole team is trying to solve the same problem.
In an attempt to reduce communication problems, a "ubiquitous language" is defined – a common glossary of terms that's used throughout the documentation and the software. This includes the...
