List of software development philosophies

Software development philosophies

• Behavior-driven development
• Design-driven development
• Domain-driven design
• Secure by design
• Test-driven development
• * Acceptance test–driven development
• * Continuous test-driven development
• * Specification by example

• Iterative and incremental development
• Waterfall model
• Formal methods

• Agile software development
• * Lean software development
• Lightweight methodology
• * Adaptive software development
• * Extreme programming
• * Feature-driven development
• * ICONIX
• Kanban
• Cowboy coding

• KISS principle
• Minimalism
• Open–closed principle
• Release early, release often
• Rule of least power
• There's more than one way to do it
• Unix philosophy
• Worse is better
• You aren't gonna need it
• Don't repeat yourself
• SOLID
• Single source of truth
• Single version of the truth

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar - book comparing top-down vs. bottom-up open-source software

  Programming paradigms

• Agent-oriented programming
• Aspect-oriented programming
• Component-based software engineering
• Functional programming
• Modular programming
• Object-oriented programming
• Reactive programming

  Software development methodologies

• Agile Unified Process
• Constructionist design methodology
• Dynamic systems development method
• Extreme programming
• Iterative and incremental development
• Kanban
• Lean software development
• Open Unified Process
• Pair programming
• Rapid application development
• Rational Unified Process
• Scrum
• Structured systems analysis and design method
• Unified Process

  Software development processes

• Active-Admin-driven development
• Behavior-driven development
• Bug-driven development
• Configuration-driven development
• Design-driven development
• Domain-driven design
• Feature-driven development
• Test-driven development
• User-centered design
• Value-driven design