Programming

In a technical context, Murphyʻs Law is highly relevant to the process of testing software and hardware solutions. Murphyʻs Law suggests that during the testing process, testing equipment will have faults, testers will fail to follow procedure, or run into other types of issues.

The second-system effect or second-system syndrome is the tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by over-engineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.

Domain-driven design is a software design approach focusing on modelling software to match a domain according to input from that domain's experts. In terms of object-oriented programming it means that the structure and language of software code should match the business domain.