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Experience Reuse

This wiki is essentially about experience reuse. Some developers made some experience, gained some knowledge, and got expertise. Then they codified this knowledge as pattern, anti-patterns, principles and the like. This wiki collects these and describes and examines them in a structured way.

The following table shows the different forms of codified experience:

Form	Description	List
Principles	Rules of thumb telling good solutions from bad solutions	list
Patterns	Known good solutions	list
Anti-Patterns	Known bad solutions	list
Refactorings	Procedures for transforming solutions structurally (typically from bad to good)	list
Terms	Any terms used in software development	list
Non-Principles	Rules which look like principles but are not principles in the sense discussed here.	list

Currently this wiki has a focus on principles. In the future the wiki will extend in order to describe also the other forms and more than that: interconnect them.

The advantages and disadvantages of (anti-)patterns can be described using principles
Refactorings are cures for anti-patterns
Refactorings may be used to transform a solution in a way that adheres more to a certain principle
Refactorings may lead to certain patterns
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