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Table of Contents

Foreword
Page xix
Introduction
Page xxv
On the Cover
Page xxix
Chapter 1. Clean Code
Page 1
There Will Be Code
Page 2
Bad Code
Page 3
The Total Cost of Owning a Mess
Page 4
The Grand Redesign in the Sky
Page 5
Attitude
Page 5
The Primal Conundrum
Page 6
The Art of Clean Code?
Page 6
What Is Clean Code?
Page 7
Schools of Thought
Page 12
We Are Authors
Page 13
The Boy Scout Rule
Page 14
Prequel and Principles
Page 15
Conclusion
Page 15
Bibliography
Page 15
Chapter 2. Meaningful Names
Page 17
A Introduction
Page 17
Use Intention-Revealing Names
Page 18
Avoid Disinformation
Page 19
Make Meaningful Distinctions
Page 20
Use Pronounceable Names
Page 21
Use Searchable Names
Page 22
Avoid Encodings
Page 23
Hungarian Notation
Page 23
Member Prefixes
Page 24
Interfaces and Implementations
Page 24
Avoid Mental Mapping
Page 25
Class Names
Page 25
Method Names
Page 25
Don't Be Cute
Page 26
Pick One Word per Concept
Page 26
Don't Pun
Page 26
Use Solution Domain Names
Page 27
Use Problem Domain Names
Page 27
Add Meaningful Context
Page 27
Don't Add Gratuitous Context
Page 29
Final Words
Page 30
Chapter 3. Functions
Page 31
Small!
Page 34
Blocks and Indenting
Page 35
Do One Thing
Page 35
Sections within Functions
Page 36
One Level of Abstraction per Function
Page 36
Reading Code from Top to Bottom: The Stepdown Rule
Page 37
Switch Statements
Page 37
Use Descriptive Names
Page 39
Function Arguments
Page 40
Common Monadic Forms
Page 41
Flag Arguments
Page 41
Dyadic Functions
Page 42
Triads
Page 42
Argument Objects
Page 43
Argument Lists
Page 43
Verbs and Keywords
Page 43
Have No Side Effects
Page 44
Output Arguments
Page 45
Command Query Separation
Page 45
Prefer Exceptions to Returning Error Codes
Page 46
Extract Try/Catch Blocks
Page 46
Error Handling Is One Thing
Page 47
The Error.java Dependency Magnet
Page 47
Don't Repeat Yourself
Page 48
Structured Programming
Page 48
How Do You Write Functions Like This?
Page 49
Conclusion
Page 49
SetupTeardownIncluder
Page 50
Bibliography
Page 52
Chapter 4. Comments
Page 53
Comments Do Not Make Up for Bad Code
Page 55
Explain Yourself in Code
Page 55
Good Comments
Page 55
Legal Comments
Page 55
Informative Comments
Page 56
Explanation of Intent
Page 56
Clarification
Page 57
Warning of Consequences
Page 58
TODO Comments
Page 58
Amplification
Page 59
Javadocs in Public APIs
Page 59
Bad Comments
Page 59
Mumbling
Page 59
Redundant Comments
Page 60
Misleading Comments
Page 63
Mandated Comments
Page 63
Journal Comments
Page 63
Noise Comments
Page 64
Scary Noise
Page 66
Don't Use a Comment When You Can Use a Function or a Variable
Page 67
Position Markers
Page 67
Closing Brace Comments
Page 67
Attributions and Bylines
Page 68
Commented-Out Code
Page 68
HTML Comments
Page 69
Nonlocal Information
Page 69
Too Much Information
Page 70
Inobvious Connection
Page 70
Function Headers
Page 70
Javadocs in Nonpublic Code
Page 71
Example
Page 71
Bibliography
Page 74
Chapter 5. Formatting
Page 75
The Purpose of Formatting
Page 76
Vertical Formatting
Page 76
The Newspaper Metaphor
Page 77
Vertical Openness Between Concepts
Page 78
Vertical Density
Page 79
Vertical Distance
Page 80
Vertical Ordering
Page 84
Horizontal Formatting
Page 85
Horizontal Openness and Density
Page 86
Horizontal Alignment
Page 87
Indentation
Page 88
Dummy Scopes
Page 90
Team Rules
Page 90
Uncle Bob's Formatting Rules
Page 90
Chapter 6. Objects and Data Structures
Page 93
Data Abstraction
Page 93
Data/Object Anti-Symmetry
Page 95
The Law of Demeter
Page 97
Train Wrecks
Page 98
Hybrids
Page 99
Hiding Structure
Page 99
Data Transfer Objects
Page 100
Active Record
Page 101
Conclusion
Page 101
Bibliography
Page 101
Chapter 7. Error Handling
Page 103
Use Exceptions Rather Than Return Codes
Page 104
Write Your Try-Catch-Finally Statement First
Page 105
Use Unchecked Exceptions
Page 106
Provide Context with Exceptions
Page 107
Define Exception Classes in Terms of a Caller's Needs
Page 107
Define the Normal Flow
Page 109
Don't Return Null
Page 110
Don't Pass Null
Page 111
Conclusion
Page 112
Bibliography
Page 112
Chapter 8. Boundaries
Page 113
Using Third-Party Code
Page 114
Exploring and Learning Boundaries
Page 116
Learning log4j
Page 116
Learning Tests Are Better Than Free
Page 118
Using Code That Does Not Yet Exist
Page 118
Clean Boundaries
Page 120
Bibliography
Page 120
Chapter 9. Unit Tests
Page 121
The Three Laws of TDD
Page 122
Keeping Tests Clean
Page 123
Tests Enable the -ilities
Page 124
Clean Tests
Page 124
Domain-Specific Testing Language
Page 127
A Dual Standard
Page 127
One Assert per Test
Page 130
Single Concept per Test
Page 131
F.I.R.S.T.
Page 132
Conclusion
Page 133
Bibliography
Page 133
Chapter 10. Classes
Page 135
Class Organization
Page 136
Encapsulation
Page 136
Classes Should Be Small!
Page 138
The Single Responsibility Principle
Page 138
Cohesion
Page 140
Maintaining Cohesion Results in Many Small Classes
Page 141
Organizing for Change
Page 147
Isolating from Change
Page 149
Bibliography
Page 151
Chapter 11. Systems
Page 153
How Would You Build a City?
Page 154
Separate Constructing a System from Using It
Page 154
Separation of Main
Page 155
Factories
Page 155
Dependency Injection
Page 157
Scaling Up
Page 157
Cross-Cutting Concerns
Page 160
Java Proxies
Page 161
Pure Java AOP Frameworks
Page 163
AspectJ Aspects
Page 166
Test Drive the System Architecture
Page 166
Optimize Decision Making
Page 167
Use Standards Wisely, When They Add Demonstrable Value
Page 168
Systems Need Domain-Specific Languages
Page 168
Conclusion
Page 169
Bibliography
Page 169
Chapter 12. Emergence
Page 171
Getting Clean via Emergent Design
Page 171
Simple Design Rule 1: Runs All the Tests
Page 172
Simple Design Rules 2-4: Refactoring
Page 172
No Duplication
Page 173
Expressive
Page 175
Minimal Classes and Methods
Page 176
Conclusion
Page 176
Bibliography
Page 176
Chapter 13. Concurrency
Page 177
Why Concurrency?
Page 178
Myths and Misconceptions
Page 179
Challenges
Page 180
Concurrency Defense Principles
Page 180
Single Responsibility Principle
Page 181
Corollary: Limit the Scope of Data
Page 181
Corollary: Use Copies of Data
Page 181
Corollary: Threads Should Be as Independent as Possible
Page 182
Know Your Library
Page 182
Thread-Safe Collections
Page 182
Know Your Execution Models
Page 183
Producer-Consumer
Page 184
Readers-Writers
Page 184
Dining Philosophers
Page 184
Beware Dependencies Between Synchronized Methods
Page 185
Keep Synchronized Sections Small
Page 185
Writing Correct Shut-Down Code Is Hard
Page 186
Testing Threaded Code
Page 186
Treat Spurious Failures as Candidate Threading Issues
Page 187
Get Your Nonthreaded Code Working First
Page 187
Make Your Threaded Code Pluggable
Page 187
Make Your Threaded Code Tunable
Page 187
Run with More Threads Than Processors
Page 188
Run on Different Platforms
Page 188
Instrument Your Code to Try and Force Failures
Page 188
Hand-Coded
Page 189
Automated
Page 189
Conclusion
Page 190
Bibliography
Page 191
Chapter 14. Successive Refinement
Page 193
Args Implementation
Page 194
How Did I Do This?
Page 200
Args: The Rough Draft
Page 201
So I Stopped
Page 212
On Incrementalism
Page 212
String Arguments
Page 214
Conclusion
Page 250
Chapter 15. JUnit Internals
Page 251
The JUnit Framework
Page 252
Conclusion
Page 265
Chapter 16. Refactoring SerialDate
Page 267
First, Make It Work
Page 268
Then Make It Right
Page 270
Conclusion
Page 284
Bibliography
Page 284
Chapter 17. Smells and Heuristics
Page 285
Comments
Page 286
C1. Inappropriate Information
Page 286
C2. Obsolete Comment
Page 286
C3. Redundant Comment
Page 286
C4. Poorly Written Comment
Page 287
C5. Commented-Out Code
Page 287
Environment
Page 287
E1. Build Requires More Than One Step
Page 287
E2. Tests Require More Than One Step
Page 287
Functions
Page 288
F1. Too Many Arguments
Page 288
F2. Output Arguments
Page 288
F3. Flag Arguments
Page 288
F4. Dead Function
Page 288
General
Page 288
G1. Multiple Languages in One Source File
Page 288
G2. Obvious Behavior Is Unimplemented
Page 288
G3. Incorrect Behavior at the Boundaries
Page 289
G4. Overridden Safeties
Page 289
G5. Duplication
Page 289
G6. Code at Wrong Level of Abstraction
Page 290
G7. Base Classes Depending on Their Derivatives
Page 291
G8. Too Much Information
Page 291
G9. Dead Code
Page 292
G10. Vertical Separation
Page 292
G11. Inconsistency
Page 292
G12. Clutter
Page 293
G13. Artificial Coupling
Page 293
G14. Feature Envy
Page 293
G15. Selector Arguments
Page 294
G16. Obscured Intent
Page 295
G17. Misplaced Responsibility
Page 295
G18. Inappropriate Static
Page 296
G19. Use Explanatory Variables
Page 296
G20. Function Names Should Say What They Do
Page 297
G21. Understand the Algorithm
Page 297
G22. Make Logical Dependencies Physical
Page 298
G23. Prefer Polymorphism to If/Else or Switch/Case
Page 299
G24. Follow Standard Conventions
Page 299
G25. Replace Magic Numbers with Named Constants
Page 300
G26. Be Precise
Page 301
G27. Structure over Convention
Page 301
G28. Encapsulate Conditionals
Page 301
G29. Avoid Negative Conditionals
Page 302
G30. Functions Should Do One Thing
Page 302
G31. Hidden Temporal Couplings
Page 302
G32. Don't Be Arbitrary
Page 303
G33. Encapsulate Boundary Conditions
Page 304
G34. Functions Should Descend Only One Level of Abstraction
Page 304
G35. Keep Configurable Data at High Levels
Page 306
G36. Avoid Transitive Navigation
Page 306
Java
Page 307
J1. Avoid Long Import Lists by Using Wildcards
Page 307
J2. Don't Inherit Constants
Page 307
J3. Constants versus Enums
Page 308
Names
Page 309
N1. Choose Descriptive Names
Page 309
N2. Choose Names at the Appropriate Level of Abstraction
Page 311
N3. Use Standard Nomenclature Where Possible
Page 311
N4. Unambiguous Names
Page 312
N5. Use Long Names for Long Scopes
Page 312
N6. Avoid Encodings
Page 312
N7. Names Should Describe Side-Effects
Page 313
Tests
Page 313
T1. Insufficient Tests
Page 313
T2. Use a Coverage Tool!
Page 313
T3. Don't Skip Trivial Tests
Page 313
T4. An Ignored Test Is a Question About an Ambiguity
Page 313
T5. Test Boundary Conditions
Page 314
T6. Exhaustively Test Near Bugs
Page 314
T7. Patterns of Failure Are Revealing
Page 314
T8. Test Coverage Patterns Can Be Revealing
Page 314
T9. Tests Should Be Fast
Page 314
Conclusion
Page 314
Bibliography
Page 315
Appendix A. Concurrency
Page 317
Client/Server Example
Page 317
The Server
Page 317
Adding Threading
Page 319
Server Observations
Page 319
Conclusion
Page 321
Possible Paths of Execution
Page 321
Number of Paths
Page 322
Digging Deeper
Page 323
Conclusion
Page 326
Knowing Your Library
Page 326
Executor Framework
Page 326
Nonblocking Solutions
Page 327
Nonthread-Safe Classes
Page 328
Dependencies Between Methods Can Break Concurrent Code
Page 329
Tolerate the Failure
Page 330
Client-Based Locking
Page 330
Server-Based Locking
Page 332
Increasing Throughput
Page 333
Single-Thread Calculation of Throughput
Page 334
Multithread Calculation of Throughput
Page 335
Deadlock
Page 335
Mutual Exclusion
Page 336
Lock & Wait
Page 337
No Preemption
Page 337
Circular Wait
Page 337
Breaking Mutual Exclusion
Page 337
Breaking Lock & Wait
Page 338
Breaking Preemption
Page 338
Breaking Circular Wait
Page 338
Testing Multithreaded Code
Page 339
Tool Support for Testing Thread-Based Code
Page 342
Conclusion
Page 342
Tutorial: Full Code Examples
Page 343
Client/Server Nonthreaded
Page 343
Client/Server Using Threads
Page 347
Appendix B. org.jfree.date.SerialDate
Page 349
Appendix C. Cross References of Heuristics
Page 409
Epilogue
Page 411
Index
Page 413

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