Class Count

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Design Patterns Core

Record: lexicon:class-count

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which extracting each algorithm into its own class raises the total number of classes.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Uniform Traversal Interface and before Class Proliferation.

Category

• Behavioral Patterns

In tension with

• Strategy Pattern
• Strategy Pattern / Class Count

Linked from

• Behavioral Patterns
• The resolutions