List of software development philosophies

This is a list of approaches, styles, and philosophies in software development. It also contains programming paradigms, software development methodologies, software development processes, and single practices, principles and laws.

Software development philosophies

Large-scale programming styles

Specification-related paradigms

Comprehensive systems

Rules of thumb, laws and principles

KISS principle
Minimalism (computing)
Open–closed principle
Release early, release often
Robustness principle, also known as Postel's law
Rule of least power
There's more than one way to do it
Unix philosophy
Worse is better
You aren't gonna need it (YAGNI)
Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
SOLID (object-oriented design)
Single source of truth (SSOT)
Single version of the truth (SVOT)
Principle of least astonishment (POLA)
Do what I mean (DWIM)
Fail-fast
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
Law of Demeter, also known as the principle of least knowledge.
Gall's law
Command–query separation (CQS)
Separation of mechanism and policy
Uniform access principle
Law of conservation of complexity, also known as Tesler's Law
Pareto Principle
Parkinson's law
Service loose coupling principle

Other

The Cathedral and the Bazaar - book comparing top-down vs. bottom-up open-source software
Davis 201 Principles of Software Development[1]
Where's the Theory for Software Engineering?[2]
The Philosophy of Computer Science[3]
Don't Make Me Think (Principles of intuitive navigation and information design)[4]

Programming paradigms

Software development methodologies

Agile Unified Process (AUP)
Constructionist design methodology (CDM)
Dynamic systems development method (DSDM)
Extreme programming (XP)
Iterative and incremental development
Kanban
Lean software development
Open Unified Process
Pair programming
Rapid application development (RAD)
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Scrum
Structured systems analysis and design method (SSADM)
Unified Process (UP)

Software development processes

Active-Admin-driven development (AADD)
Behavior-driven development (BDD)
Bug-driven development (BgDD)
Configuration-driven development (CDD)
Design-driven development (D3)
Domain-driven design (DDD)
Feature-driven development (FDD)
Test-driven development (TDD)
User-centered design (UCD) (User-Driven Development (UDD))
Value-driven design (VDD)

References

Davis, Alan Mark. (1995). 201 principles of software development. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-015840-1. OCLC 31814837.
Johnson, Pontus; Ekstedt, Mathias; Jacobson, Ivar (2012). "Where's the Theory for Software Engineering?". IEEE Software. 29 (5): 96. doi:10.1109/MS.2012.127. ISSN 0740-7459. S2CID 38239662.
Turner, Raymond; Angius, Nicola (2020), "The Philosophy of Computer Science", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2020-09-01
Krug, Steve (2014). Don't make me think, revisited : a common sense approach to Web usability. Bayle, Elisabeth,, Straiger, Aren,, Matcho, Mark (Third ed.). [San Francisco, California]. ISBN 978-0-321-96551-6. OCLC 859556499.

Don't Make Me Think (book by Steve Krug about human computer interaction and web usability)

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[1] Davis, Alan Mark. (1995). 201 principles of software development. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-015840-1. OCLC 31814837.

[2] Johnson, Pontus; Ekstedt, Mathias; Jacobson, Ivar (2012). "Where's the Theory for Software Engineering?". IEEE Software. 29 (5): 96. doi:10.1109/MS.2012.127. ISSN 0740-7459. S2CID 38239662.

[3] Turner, Raymond; Angius, Nicola (2020), "The Philosophy of Computer Science", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2020 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2020-09-01

[4] Krug, Steve (2014). Don't make me think, revisited : a common sense approach to Web usability. Bayle, Elisabeth,, Straiger, Aren,, Matcho, Mark (Third ed.). [San Francisco, California]. ISBN 978-0-321-96551-6. OCLC 859556499.