Episode 51: Design By Contract
Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers · SE Radio Team
March 28, 200737m 13s
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Show Notes
In this episode, Arno and Michael take a look at Design by Contract, a programming technique formalized by Bertrand Meyer. The idea is that an interface is more than method signatures - it is also about specifying the expected behavior that implementations must provide. While some languages include direct support for this style of programming, it is a useful mindset when desiging interfaces even without such language features.