Maximalism

Maximalism

The Swiss-Army-Knife approach

Maximalism is an attempt to cover all bases, trap all exceptions, validate all inputs, check all values, test all possible execution branches, and foresee all possible futures for the codebase. It revolves heavily around ‘what if’ scenarios, and is the anti-thesis of Lean development.

The irony of the length of this article compared to the ‘minimalism’ article is not lost on the author.