# Inheritance Complexity

> The degree to which relying on subclassing to vary creation adds to the inheritance hierarchy's complexity.

Record: `lexicon:inheritance-complexity`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Design Patterns Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/design-patterns-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-inheritance-complexity

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Copy Semantics](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/copy-semantics.md) and before [Cartesian Inheritance Explosion](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/cartesian-inheritance-explosion.md).

## Category

- [Creational Patterns](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/creational-patterns.md)

## In tension with

- [Factory Method Pattern](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/factory-method-pattern.md)
- [Factory Method Pattern / Inheritance Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/factory-method-pattern-inheritance-complexity.md)

## Linked from

- [Creational Patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-creational-patterns.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)