Lexicon

Encapsulation Extremes

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Computation Core

Record: lexicon:encapsulation-extremes

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which hiding internals too strictly makes a unit's behavior hard to observe in tests.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Dynamic Runtime Behavior and before Fitness for Use.

Category

  • Correctness / Determinism / Verification

In tension with

  • Testability
  • Testability / Encapsulation Extremes

Linked from

  • Correctness / Determinism / Verification
  • The resolutions