Excessive Fragmentation

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:excessive-fragmentation

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which splitting responsibilities too finely scatters logic across many small units.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Coordination Cost and before Locality of Behavior.

Category

• Core Modular Design

In tension with

• Single Responsibility Principle
• Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) / Excessive Fragmentation

Linked from

• Architectural rules and principles
• Core Modular Design
• The resolutions