Extract Class

Kind: technique

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:extract-class

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for moving a cohesive group of fields and methods out of a class into a new class of their own.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Specialized Optimization and before Extract Module.

Category

• Core Modular Design

Refactors

• God Object
• Divergent Change
• Single Responsibility Principle
• High Cohesion

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Core Modular Design