Centralize the Rule

Kind: technique

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:centralize-the-rule

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for gathering every copy of one rule into a single definition that the copies are replaced by.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Split by Domain and before Explicit Dependency.

Category

• Core Modular Design

Refactors

• Shotgun Surgery
• Stringly Typed Programming
• Magic Value
• Do Not Repeat Yourself
• Convention over Configuration
• Single Source of Truth

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Core Modular Design
• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
• Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics