Utility Dump

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:utility-dump

Severity: discouraged

Scope: modularity, domain_boundary

Formed by: Accumulate unrelated helper functions in generic utility modules without ownership, cohesion, or domain language.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which unrelated helpers accumulate in a generic utility module that no one owns.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Repository Dump and before Framework Leakage.

Refactored by

• Move Behavior to Its Owner
• Split by Domain
• Value Object
• Name the Concept

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Domain boundary
• Modularity

Negated by

• High Cohesion

Linked from

• Never and always
• Anti-patterns
• Core Modular Design
• Core Modular Design
• Core Vocabulary
• Severity levels
• The forces