Is Design Dead?

This article stands out again the importance of design in programming. I found it very accurate the part where mentioned that people focused on programming underestimate the work of the dedicated to the design, without considering that both techniques are combined to achieve the best of a program.

An important concept is refactoring as it can sometimes be useful, depending on how it is used. For example, we must not believe that refactoring corrects errors that were committed in the past because it is not. In addition, you should keep in mind that this technique will only work in a proper way if you have a good design. People are inclined to use UML diagrams for design, others simply do not, the only important thing here is that the design should be as simple as possible.

Again the software architecture and the importance of knowing different design patterns to improve the programs is mentioned in a matter of simplicity. It is mentioned that the programs should be simple and able to be understood by people who maybe not engaged in coding.

A point to be considered is that the design is an aid to deployment part, and with aid I want to say that could prevent errors. It is recommended that if you are in that part of encoding and errors that could belong to the design are found, they must be corrected and documented in the design, which does not always take place.

As programmers, and so that our programs have a longer duration, we should not leave aside the design, since as we have been learning in other articles, is an essential part of a program that not only improves the quality, also help saving time and money in a big project, and a good design can get us out of many future problems.