Complexity

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Human Factors

Record: lexicon:complexity

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree of interdependence and intricacy that makes a system harder to reason about and change.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Maintainability and before Fault Isolation.

Category

• Quality Attributes

In tension with

• Resilience
• Flyweight Pattern
• Concurrency
• Defense in Depth
• Resilience / Complexity
• Flyweight Pattern / Complexity
• Concurrency / Complexity
• Defense in Depth / Complexity

Linked from

• Error Handling / Resilience
• Structural Patterns
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance
• The resolutions