• How to tell the difference between good and bad code
• How to write good code and how to transform bad code into good code
• How to create good names, good functions, good objects, and good classes
• How to format code for maximum readability
• How to implement complete error handling without obscuring code logic
• How to unit test and practice test-driven development

Practical Software Architecture Solutions from the Legendary Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”)

By applying universal rules of software architecture, you can dramatically improve developer productivity throughout the life of any software system. Now, building upon the success of his best-selling books Clean Code and The Clean Coder, legendary software craftsman Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) reveals those rules and helps you apply them.

Martin’s Clean Architecture doesn’t merely present options. Drawing on over a half-century of experience in software environments of every imaginable type, Martin tells you what choices to make and why they are critical to your success. As you’ve come to expect from Uncle Bob, this book is packed with direct, no-nonsense solutions for the real challenges you’ll face–the ones that will make or break your projects.

• Learn what software architects need to achieve–and core disciplines and practices for achieving it
• Master essential software design principles for addressing function, component separation, and data management
• See how programming paradigms impose discipline by restricting what developers can do
• Understand what’s critically important and what’s merely a “detail”
• Implement optimal, high-level structures for web, database, thick-client, console, and embedded applications
• Define appropriate boundaries and layers, and organize components and services
• See why designs and architectures go wrong, and how to prevent (or fix) these failures

Clean Architecture is essential reading for every current or aspiring software architect, systems analyst, system designer, and software manager–and for every programmer who must execute someone else’s designs.

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The Robert C. Martin Clean Code Collection consists of two bestselling eBooks:

• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship
• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

In Clean Code, legendary software expert Robert C. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code “on the fly” into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer--but only if you work at it. You will be challenged to think about what’s right about that code and what’s wrong with it. More important, you will be challenged to reassess your professional values and your commitment to your craft.

In The Clean Coder, Martin introduces the disciplines, techniques, tools, and practices of true software craftsmanship. This book is packed with practical advice--about everything from estimating and coding to refactoring and testing. It covers much more than technique: It is about attitude. Martin shows how to approach software development with honor, self-respect, and pride; work well and work clean; communicate and estimate faithfully; face difficult decisions with clarity and honesty; and understand that deep knowledge comes with a responsibility to act.

Readers of this collection will come away understanding

• How to tell the difference between good and bad code
• How to write good code and how to transform bad code into good code
• How to create good names, good functions, good objects, and good classes
• How to format code for maximum readability
• How to implement complete error handling without obscuring code logic
• How to unit test and practice test-driven development
• What it means to behave as a true software craftsman
• How to deal with conflict, tight schedules, and unreasonable managers
• How to get into the flow of coding and get past writer’s block
• How to handle unrelenting pressure and avoid burnout
• How to combine enduring attitudes with new development paradigms
• How to manage your time and avoid blind alleys, marshes, bogs, and swamps
• How to foster environments where programmers and teams can thrive
• When to say “No”--and how to say it
• When to say “Yes”--and what yes really means

Programmers who endure and succeed amidst swirling uncertainty and nonstop pressure share a common attribute: They care deeply about the practice of creating software. They treat it as a craft. They are professionals.

In The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers, legendary software expert Robert C. Martin introduces the disciplines, techniques, tools, and practices of true software craftsmanship. This book is packed with practical advice–about everything from estimating and coding to refactoring and testing. It covers much more than technique: It is about attitude. Martin shows how to approach software development with honor, self-respect, and pride; work well and work clean; communicate and estimate faithfully; face difficult decisions with clarity and honesty; and understand that deep knowledge comes with a responsibility to act.

Readers will learn

• What it means to behave as a true software craftsman
• How to deal with conflict, tight schedules, and unreasonable managers
• How to get into the flow of coding, and get past writer’s block
• How to handle unrelenting pressure and avoid burnout
• How to combine enduring attitudes with new development paradigms
• How to manage your time, and avoid blind alleys, marshes, bogs, and swamps
• How to foster environments where programmers and teams can thrive
• When to say “No”–and how to say it
• When to say “Yes”–and what yes really means

Great software is something to marvel at: powerful, elegant, functional, a pleasure to work with as both a developer and as a user. Great software isn’t written by machines. It is written by professionals with an unshakable commitment to craftsmanship. The Clean Coder will help you become one of them–and earn the pride and fulfillment that they alone possess.

• Get back to the basics–what Agile is, was, and should always be
• Understand the origins, and proper practice, of SCRUM
• Master essential business-facing Agile practices, from small releases and acceptance tests to whole-team communication
• Explore Agile team members’ relationships with each other, and with their product
• Rediscover indispensable Agile technical practices: TDD, refactoring, simple design, and pair programming
• Understand the central roles values and craftsmanship play in your Agile team’s success

With the award-winning book Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices, Robert C. Martin helped bring Agile principles to tens of thousands of Java and C++ programmers. Now .NET programmers have a definitive guide to agile methods with this completely updated volume from Robert C. Martin and Micah Martin, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#.

This book presents a series of case studies illustrating the fundamentals of Agile development and Agile design, and moves quickly from UML models to real C# code. The introductory chapters lay out the basics of the agile movement, while the later chapters show proven techniques in action. The book includes many source code examples that are also available for download from the authors’ Web site.

Readers will come away from this book understanding

• Agile principles, and the fourteen practices of Extreme Programming
• Spiking, splitting, velocity, and planning iterations and releases
• Test-driven development, test-first design, and acceptance testing
• Refactoring with unit testing
• Pair programming
• Agile design and design smells
• The five types of UML diagrams and how to use them effectively
• Object-oriented package design and design patterns
• How to put all of it together for a real-world project

Whether you are a C# programmer or a Visual Basic or Java programmer learning C#, a software development manager, or a business analyst, Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# is the first book you should read to understand agile software and how it applies to programming in the .NET Framework.

• Lernen Sie aus Uncle Bobs jahrzehntelanger Erfahrung, worauf es bei der agilen Softwareentwicklung wirklich ankommt
• Die ursprünglichen agilen Werte und Prinzipien kurz und prägnant für den Praxiseinsatz erläutert
• Von den unternehmerischen Aspekten über die Kommunikation im Team bis zu den technischen Praktiken wie Test-Driven Development (TDD), einfaches Design und Pair Programming

Fast 20 Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung des agilen Manifests ruft der legendäre Softwareentwickler Robert C. Martin (»Uncle Bob«) dazu auf, sich wieder auf die ursprünglichen Werte und Prinzipien zurückzubesinnen, die den eigentlichen Kern der agilen Softwareentwicklung ausmachen und die für die Praxis von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Mit Clean Agile lässt er alle an seiner jahrzehntelangen Erfahrung teilhaben und räumt mit Missverständnissen und Fehlinterpretationen auf, die im Laufe der Jahre entstanden sind. Dabei wendet er sich gleichermaßen an Programmierer und Nicht-Programmierer.

Uncle Bob macht deutlich, was agile Softwareentwicklung eigentlich ist, war und immer sein sollte: ein einfaches Konzept, das kleinen Softwareteams hilft, kleine Projekte zu managen – denn daraus setzen sich letztendlich alle großen Projekte zusammen. Dabei konzentriert er sich insbesondere auf die Praktiken des Extreme Programmings (XP), ohne sich in technischen Details zu verlieren.

Egal, ob Sie Entwickler, Tester, Projektmanager oder Auftraggeber sind – dieses Buch zeigt Ihnen, worauf es bei der Umsetzung agiler Methoden wirklich ankommt.

• Ursprünge der agilen Softwareentwicklung
• Agile Werte und Prinzipien
• Der richtige Einsatz von Scrum
• Agile Transformation
• Extreme Programming
• Unternehmensbezogene Praktiken: User Stories, Velocity, kleine Releases und Akzeptanztests
• Teambezogene Praktiken: gemeinsame Eigentümerschaft, kontinuierliche Integration und Stand-up-Meetings
• Technische Praktiken: TDD, Refactoring, einfaches Design und Pair Programming
• Zertifizierung und Coaching
• Software Craftsmanship

»Bobs Frustration spiegelt sich in jedem Satz des Buchs wider – und das zu Recht. Der Zustand, in dem sich die Welt der agilen Softwareentwicklung befindet, ist nichts im Vergleich zu dem, was sie eigentlich sein könnte. Das Buch beschreibt, auf was man sich aus Bobs Sicht konzentrieren sollte, um das zu erreichen, was sein könnte. Und er hat es schon erreicht, deshalb lohnt es sich, ihm zuzuhören.«
- Kent Beck

»Uncle Bob ist einer der klügsten Menschen, die ich kenne, und seine Begeisterung für Programmierung kennt keine Grenzen. Wenn es jemandem gelingt, agile Softwareentwicklung zu entmystifizieren, dann ihm.«
- Jerry Fitzpatrick