DRY, KISS, and YAGNI to avoid Over-engineering Trap

Refactor and architect your code based on DRY, KISS, and YAGNI principles, beware of over-engineering trap that leads to unnecessary complexity

Throughout my career, I have seen many smart software engineers/developers fall into the trap of over-engineering without even realizing it.

Let’s see why software developers tend to over-engineering and what the symptoms are.

Factors that Contribute to Over-engineering

These are the factors that contribute to over-engineering in my opinion:

• Lack of understanding of requirements: Developers anticipate problems that may never arise, leading to unnecessary complexity in the system. In other words, a solution is looking for a problem to solve.

  Long-term requirements are hard to predict. It requires some level of domain knowledge. If you’re lacking it (most developers do), you should just focus on creating solutions that fix the current or short-term requirements.

• Too much freedom: Developers have too much…