Temporal Coupling

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:temporal-coupling

Severity: discouraged

Scope: modularity, contract_compatibility, correctness_verification, causality_ordering

Formed by: Require operations to be called in a specific undocumented order for correctness.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which operations must be called in an undocumented order to work.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Zombie Code and before Hidden Side Effect.

Refactored by

• Encode State Machine
• Constructor-Valid State
• Make Order Explicit
• Precondition Check

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Causality ordering
• Contract compatibility
• Correctness verification
• Modularity

Violates

• Predictability

Negated by

• Statelessness

Linked from

• Orchestration as declared structure
• An anti-pattern is a decay path
• Anti-patterns
• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Behavioral Patterns
• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Creational Patterns
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Severity levels
• The forces