• Low Coupling, High Cohesion

• Object-Oriented Design
• API Design
• Architecture

“A structure is stable if cohesion is strong and coupling is low.”¹⁾

This principle is a combination of the two principles Low Coupling and High Cohesion.

See section contrary principles.

• Examined
• Accepted

• Low Coupling
• High Cohesion

• Information Expert

• Keep It Simple Stupid: Following this principle often makes the design more complicated.

• Model Principle

Stub

• Albert Endres and Dieter Rombach: A Handbook of Software and Systems Engineering. p. 43pp.
• Glenford J. Myers: Reliable Software through Composite Design
• Loose coupling, Coupling (computer programming)
• Cohesion (computer science)
• CouplingAndCohesion

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