Solid principles

Initial

Stands for (acronym)

Concept

S

SRP  [4]

Single responsibility principle

class should have only a single responsibility (i.e. only one potential change in the software's specification should be able to affect the specification of the class)

O

OCP  [5]

Open/closed principle

"software entities … should be open for extension, but closed for modification."

L

LSP  [6]

Liskov substitution principle

"objects in a program should be replaceable with instances of their subtypes without altering the correctness of that program." See also design by contract.

I

ISP  [7]

Interface segregation principle

"many client-specific interfaces are better than one general-purpose interface." [8]

D

DIP  [9]

Dependency inversion principle

one should "Depend upon Abstractions. Do not depend upon concretions." [8]