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Solid Principles

The term SOLID is a mnemonic acronym for five design principles intended to make software designs more understandable, flexible and maintainable. The principles are a subset of many principles promoted by Robert C. Martin. Though they apply to any object-oriented design, the SOLID principles can also form a core philosophy for methodologies such as agile development or Adaptive Software Development.

S.O.L.I.D. Principles

• S - Single-responsiblity principle
• O - Open-closed principle
• L - Liskov substitution principle
• I - Interface segregation principle
• D - Dependency Inversion Principle

Single-responsiblity principle

• A class should have one and only one reason to change, meaning that a class should have only one job.

Open-closed principle

• Objects or entities should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

Liskov substitution principle

• Let q(x) be a property provable about objects of x of type T. Then q(y) should be provable for objects y of type S where S is a subtype of T.

Interface segregation principle

• A client should never be forced to implement an interface that it doesn't use or clients shouldn't be forced to depend on methods they do not use.

Dependency Inversion Principle

• Entities must depend on abstractions not on concretions. It states that the high level module must not depend on the low level module, but they should depend on abstractions.