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Six characteristics of good software design—simplicity, coupling, cohesion, information hiding, performance, and security—are described. This is followed by a description of abstraction as the art of software design. Two common approaches to describing software abstractions—software design models and software design patterns—are introduced.
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Voorhees, D.P. (2020). Characteristics of Good Software Design. In: Guide to Efficient Software Design. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28501-2_11
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