契约式设计（英语：Design by Contract，缩写为 DbC），一种设计计算机软件的方法。这种方法要求软件设计者为软件组件定义正式的，精确的并且可验证的接口，这样，为传统的抽象数据类型又增加了先验条件、后验条件和不变式。这种方法的名字里用到的“契约”或者说“契约”是一种比喻，因为它和商业契约的情况有点类似。

因为Design by Contract是属于Eiffel Software的注册商标，很多开发人员用契约式编程（Programming by Contract），契约编程（Contract Programming），或者契约优先式开发（Contract-First development）来指代这种方法。微软也采用这种设计方法，称为代码合约（Code Contracts）。

Design by contract (DbC), also known as contract programming, programming by contract and design-by-contract programming, is an approach for designing software. It prescribes that software designers should define formal, precise and verifiable interface specifications for software components, which extend the ordinary definition of abstract data types with preconditions, postconditions and invariants. These specifications are referred to as "contracts", in accordance with a conceptual metaphor with the conditions and obligations of business contracts.