Dependency Graph

Kind: artifact

Layer: Causality Core

Record: architecture:dependency-graph

Severity: mandatory

Scope: codebase, runtime, deployment

Canonical: Ontology

Descriptive data about which modules, tasks or services depend on which, extracted as a directed graph.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Causal Dependency and before Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG).

Requires

• Dependency Extraction

Reinforces

• Architecture Compliance

Enables

• Cycle Detection
• Impact Analysis

Conflicts with

• Hidden Dependency

In tension with

• Dynamic Loading

Tensions

• Dependency Graph / Dynamic Loading

Violated by

• Hidden Dependency

Refactored by

• Invert Dependency

Severity

• mandatory

Category

• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time

Linked from

• Orchestration as declared structure
• Keywords
• Counting copies
• Documentation is code
• A system is a graph
• The direction axis
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time
• Quality Attributes
• SOLID / Object-Oriented Design
• Severity levels
• The resolutions

in this codebase

• importsDiagram