Guidelines

Goals

In the Code Craftsmen’s view, writing software is currently much more difficult than it needs to be. Our hope, and our primary goal, is to restore the joy in programming by developing code crafting tools that make software:

• Easier to read

• Easier to write

• Easier to maintain

• Easier to reuse

Principles

There are a few key principles that support these goals and drive our design strategy, such as:

• Don’t repeat yourself

• Design for testability

• Documentation is important

• Don’t repeat yourself (unless it’s worth saying twice)

Although there are surely some other principles worth adding to this list, the ones listed here play a major role in many of our design decisions.