# Abstract Factory Pattern

> A design pattern that creates a whole family of related objects through one interface, so the members always match.

Record: `architecture:abstract-factory-pattern`
Kind: pattern
Layer: [Design Patterns Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/design-patterns-core.md)
Severity: contextual
Scope: product family, component
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology#architecture-abstract-factory-pattern

Listed in [Architecture principles](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/architecture.md), after [Factory Method Pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/factory-method-pattern.md) and before [Builder Pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/builder-pattern.md).

## Repair

- Refactored by: Introduce Abstract Factory
- Detected by: manual selection of related product classes
- Violated by: incompatible product combinations
- Measured by: family mismatch defects
- Enforced by: factory conformance tests

## Requires

- [Related Product Variants](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/related-product-variants.md)

## Reinforces

- [Interchangeability](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/interchangeability.md)

## Enables

- [Family-Level Replacement](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/family-level-replacement.md)

## Conflicts with

- [Mixed Product Families](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/mixed-product-families.md)

## In tension with

- [Boilerplate](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/boilerplate.md)

## Tensions

- [Abstract Factory Pattern / Boilerplate](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/abstract-factory-pattern-boilerplate.md)

## Severity

- [contextual](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/severity-contextual.md)

## Category

- [Creational Patterns](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture-category/creational-patterns.md)

## Linked from

- [Core Modular Design](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-core-modular-design.md)
- [Core Vocabulary](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lexicon-category-core-vocabulary.md)
- [Creational Patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lexicon-category-creational-patterns.md)
- [Severity levels](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-severity.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)