Using interfaces is a key factor in making your code easily testable in addition to removing unnecessary couplings between your classes. By creating an interface that defines the operations on your class, you allow classes that want to use that functionality the ability to use it without depending on your implementing class directly. If later on you decide to change and use a different implementation, you need only change the part of the code where the implementation is instantiated. The rest of the code need not change because it depends on the interface, not the implementing class.

This is very useful in creating unit tests. In the class under test you have it depend on the interface and inject an instance of the interface into the class (or a factory that allows it to build instances of the interface as needed) via the constructor or a property settor. The class uses the provided (or created) interface in its methods. When you go to write your tests, you can mock or fake the interface and provide an interface that responds with data configured in your unit test. You can do this because your class under test deals only with the interface, not your concrete implementation. Any class implementing the interface, including your mock or fake class, will do.

编辑:下面是一篇文章的链接，其中Erich Gamma讨论了他的引用，“面向接口编程，而不是面向实现编程。”

http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/designprinciples.html

面向接口而不是实现的代码与Java无关，也与它的接口构造无关。

这个概念是在模式/四人帮的书中突出的，但很可能在那之前就已经存在了。这个概念在Java出现之前就已经存在了。

Java Interface构造的创建就是为了帮助实现这一想法(以及其他一些事情)，人们过于关注作为意义中心的构造，而不是最初的意图。然而，这也是为什么我们在Java、c++、c#等语言中有公共和私有方法和属性的原因。

It means just interact with an object or system's public interface. Don't worry or even anticipate how it does what it does internally. Don't worry about how it is implemented. In object-oriented code, it is why we have public vs. private methods/attributes. We are intended to use the public methods because the private methods are there only for use internally, within the class. They make up the implementation of the class and can be changed as required without changing the public interface. Assume that regarding functionality, a method on a class will perform the same operation with the same expected result every time you call it with the same parameters. It allows the author to change how the class works, its implementation, without breaking how people interact with it.

And you can program to the interface, not the implementation without ever using an Interface construct. You can program to the interface not the implementation in C++, which does not have an Interface construct. You can integrate two massive enterprise systems much more robustly as long as they interact through public interfaces (contracts) rather than calling methods on objects internal to the systems. The interfaces are expected to always react the same expected way given the same input parameters; if implemented to the interface and not the implementation. The concept works in many places.

不要认为Java接口与“面向接口编程，而不是面向实现”的概念有什么关系。它们可以帮助应用概念，但它们不是概念。

它也适用于单元测试，你可以将你自己的类(满足接口的要求)注入到依赖它的类中

Using interfaces is a key factor in making your code easily testable in addition to removing unnecessary couplings between your classes. By creating an interface that defines the operations on your class, you allow classes that want to use that functionality the ability to use it without depending on your implementing class directly. If later on you decide to change and use a different implementation, you need only change the part of the code where the implementation is instantiated. The rest of the code need not change because it depends on the interface, not the implementing class.

This is very useful in creating unit tests. In the class under test you have it depend on the interface and inject an instance of the interface into the class (or a factory that allows it to build instances of the interface as needed) via the constructor or a property settor. The class uses the provided (or created) interface in its methods. When you go to write your tests, you can mock or fake the interface and provide an interface that responds with data configured in your unit test. You can do this because your class under test deals only with the interface, not your concrete implementation. Any class implementing the interface, including your mock or fake class, will do.

编辑:下面是一篇文章的链接，其中Erich Gamma讨论了他的引用，“面向接口编程，而不是面向实现编程。”

http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/designprinciples.html

如果我正在编写一个新类Swimmer来添加swim()功能，并且需要使用类的对象说Dog，并且这个Dog类实现了声明swim()的接口Animal。

在层次的顶端(动物)，它是非常抽象的，而在底层(狗)，它是非常具体的。我认为“面向接口编程”的方式是，当我编写Swimmer类时，我想针对层次结构最高的接口编写代码，在本例中是Animal对象。接口没有实现细节，因此使代码松耦合。

实现细节可以随着时间的推移而改变，但是，它不会影响剩余的代码，因为您所与之交互的是接口而不是实现。你不关心实现是什么样的……您所知道的是，将会有一个实现该接口的类。

c++的解释。

把接口看作是类的公共方法。

然后你可以创建一个“依赖”于这些公共方法的模板来执行它自己的函数(它在类的公共接口中进行函数调用)。假设这个模板是一个容器，就像Vector类一样，它所依赖的接口是一个搜索算法。

任何定义函数/接口Vector调用的算法类都将满足“契约”(就像有人在原始回复中解释的那样)。算法甚至不需要是相同的基类;唯一的要求是向量所依赖的函数/方法(接口)在你的算法中定义。

所有这些的重点是，您可以提供任何不同的搜索算法/类，只要它提供了Vector所依赖的接口(冒泡搜索、顺序搜索、快速搜索)。

您可能还想设计其他容器(列表、队列)，通过让它们实现搜索算法所依赖的接口/契约，来利用与Vector相同的搜索算法。

这节省了时间(OOP原则“代码重用”)，因为你可以一次编写一个算法，而不是一遍又一遍地针对你创建的每个新对象，而不会因为过度生长的继承树而使问题过于复杂。

至于“错过”事情是如何运作的;这是非常重要的(至少在c++中)，因为这是大多数标准模板库框架的运作方式。

当然，当使用继承和抽象类时，接口编程的方法会发生变化;但原理是一样的，你的公共函数/方法是你的类接口。

这是一个巨大的主题，也是设计模式的基石原则之一。