Shotgun Surgery

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:shotgun-surgery

Severity: discouraged

Scope: modularity

Formed by: Scatter one conceptual responsibility across many files so one change requires many coordinated edits.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which one responsibility is scattered so that a single change needs edits in many files.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Distributed Monolith and before Divergent Change.

Refactored by

• Centralize the Rule
• Extract Module
• Move Behavior to Its Owner

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Modularity

Negated by

• High Cohesion

Linked from

• An anti-pattern is a decay path
• Anti-patterns
• Core Modular Design
• Core Modular Design
• Severity levels
• The forces