Crafting Design

Learn design principles and techniques that lead not just only to well-crafted code but also well-crafted solutions!

This is a hands-on course for Developers that are comfortable writing code but want to be better at designing software. In this course about software design, you will learn to:

design well crafted solutions
produce software that is responsive to changing requirements and new functionality
avoid the pitfalls that lead to legacy code

Why Attend

You should attend if you want to:

Learn design techniques applied in successful projects
Use TDD as a design tool, applying Outside-In TDD
Drive out a flexible design
Build software that is not bound to a specific technology or framework by keeping them at the boundaries of your system
Express your business domain in every facet of your entire application, not just methods and classes
Keep your design clean as your application grows and requirements change
Let your architecture emerge, rather than designing a rigid and unchangeable structure up-front

In this workshop, participants will also learn how to:

Design better solutions
Keep not just your code, but also your design, clean using Test-Driven Development
Become comfortable in mapping business requirements to software components
Build software that reflects business requirements

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for Software Developers that:

have experience in developing software commercially
are familiar with at least one Object Oriented Language (such as Java and C#)
are able to understand Java (the codebase and exercises are in Java)
are comfortable using TDD to build software
understand mock objects and know how to use a mocking library

Practical Details

Language: English
Experiential, hands-on, interactive online learning with practical examples
Participants will be awarded a Mozaic Works certificate of completion

This Learning Program is Available on Demand

Agenda

Four elements of simple design
Mapping and visualising business concepts in code
SOLID principles
Testing and refactoring legacy code to express business domain
Expressing design and architecture in code
Outside-in TDD
Interaction Driven Design (IDD)
DDD and supporting architecture types (i.e. layered, hexagonal and event driven)

More details and full agenda here

Prerequisites

Developers must:

Bring their own laptops
Have a development environment consisting of: Java 8, favourite IDE, maven 3.x, a unit testing framework
Be able to create projects, build source code and run test cases in their development environment

In addition, a distributed version control system such as Git is desirable.

Meet Your Trainers

Sandro Mancuso

Software Craftsman | Managing Director at Codurance

Sandro Mancuso, Software craftsman , author of Software Craftsmanship: Professionalism Pragmatism Pride and Founder of the London Software Craftsmanship Community (LSCC). Sandro has been coding since a very young age but just started his professional career in 1996. He has worked for startups, software houses, product companies, international consultancy companies, and investment banks. He coded in a variety of projects, with different languages and technologies, across many industries. He has spent countless hours tinkering with Java in an enterprise environment (JEE). With an extensive experience as a hands-on mentor, his main objective is to help developers become proficient software craftsmen. Sandro has a lot of experience in bringing the Software Craftsmanship ideology and Extreme Programming practices to organisations of all sizes. Sandro is…

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