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Mastering C++ Programming

You're reading from   Mastering C++ Programming Modern C++ 17 at your fingertips

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461629
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jeganathan Swaminathan Jeganathan Swaminathan
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. C++17 Features 2. Standard Template Library FREE CHAPTER 3. Template Programming 4. Smart Pointers 5. Developing GUI Applications in C++ 6. Multithreaded Programming and Inter-Process Communication 7. Test-Driven Development 8. Behavior-Driven Development 9. Debugging Techniques 10. Code Smells and Clean Code Practices

SOLID design principle


SOLID is an acronym for a set of important design principles that, if followed, can avoid code smells and improve the code quality, both structurally and functionally.

Code smells can be prevented or refactored into clean code if your software architecture meets the SOLID design principle compliance. The following principles are collectively called SOLID design principles:

  • Single responsibility principle
  • Open closed principle
  • Liskov substitution principle
  • Interface segregation
  • Dependency inversion

The best part is that most design patterns also follow and are compliant with SOLID design principles.

Let's go through each of the preceding design principles one by one in the following sections.

Single responsibility principle

Single responsibility principle is also referred to as SRP in short. SRP says that every class must have only one responsibility. In other words, every class must represent exactly one object. When a class represents multiple objects, it tends to violate SRP...

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