SOEN308 Reusable SW Technologies

Topic 7: Common Closure & Acyclic Dependencies Principles

Kengere Kibwage, Instructor

School of Information Science & Technology
• The Common Closure Principle
• The Acyclic Dependencies Principle
• The Principle
• A Change in One of the Dependencies
• A Change in an Application Layer
• A Change in the Business
• Packaging Business Logic
• The Tension Triangle of Cohesion Principles
The classes in a package should be closed
together against the same kinds of changes. A
change that affects a package affects all the
classes in that package.
• Assetic
• kriswallsmith/assetic package
• Layers are a way to apply the Single
Responsibility principle
• FOSUserBundle
• The Problem With Plugins For Frameworks
 • The Tension Triangle of Cohesion Principles

Common Reuse principle, Common Closure principle

• Coupling: Discovering Dependencies
• Different Ways of Package Coupling
• Visualizing Dependencies
• The Acyclic Dependencies Principle
• Problematic Cycles
• Cycles in a Package Dependency Graph
• Solutions for Breaking the Cycles
• Composition
• Inheritance
• Implementation
• Usage
• Object Instantiation
• Global Function Usage
• Not to Be Considered: Global State
• The Acyclic Dependencies Principle
• Problematic Cycles
• Cycles in a Package Dependency Graph
The dependency structure between
packages must be a directed acyclic graph;
that is, there must be no cycles in the
dependency structure.
Robert C. Martin, Engineering Notebook
• Some Pseudo-Cycles and Their Dissolution
• Some Real Cycles and Their Dissolution
• Dependency Inversion
• Inversion of Control
• Mediator
• Chain of Responsibility
• Mediator and Chain of Responsibility Combined: An
Event System