SOLID: Single Responsibility Principle

Introduction

The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) is perhaps the least understood of the SOLID concepts. The term was coined by Robert C. Martin who defines the SRP in the following way, "A class should have only one reason to change." This implies that any class or component in our code should only have one functionality. Everything in the class should be related to just one goal.

When programmers need to add features or new behavior, they frequently integrate everything within the current class. When something needs to be ...