# Excessive Fragmentation

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

Record: `lexicon:excessive-fragmentation`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Structural Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/structural-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-excessive-fragmentation

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Coordination Cost](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/coordination-cost.md) and before [Locality of Behavior](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/locality-of-behavior.md).

## Category

- [Core Modular Design](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/core-modular-design.md)

## In tension with

- [Single Responsibility Principle](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/single-responsibility.md)
- [Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) / Excessive Fragmentation](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/excessive-fragmentation-single-responsibility-principle-srp.md)

## Linked from

- [Architectural rules and principles](https://banes-lab.com/software-architecture/glossary/architectural-principles.md)
- [Core Modular Design](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-core-modular-design.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)