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Single choice principle
Bertrand Meyer is the author of the book, "Object Oriented Software Construction", which is considered a foundational text of object-oriented programming book. In this book, he has mentioned about the five principles which explain modularity requirements. This wiki will explore through the Single Choice Principle in particular and its usage.

Introduction

In 1978, Yourdon and Constantine defined a software module as “a lexically contiguous sequence of program statements, bounded by boundary elements, having an aggregate identifier.” They had also proposed two important techniques namely – “Coupling” and “Cohesion” for measuing the dependability between modules.