Encapsulation

Protecting code against invariant violations by making the wrong thing impossible.

Apr 19, 2021 permanent    SoftwareEngineering

Encapsulation is the act of protecting code against invariant violations and a key component of a Well-Designed API.

"You cannot trust yourself to do the right thing all the time—so, eliminate the very possibility of doing the wrong thing."

Khorikov (2020) (pg. 104)

References

Vladimir Khorikov. Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns. Manning, Shelter Island, NY, 2020. ISBN 978-1-61729-627-7. ↩