Integration Overhead

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:integration-overhead

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree of effort required to wire independently-developed components together.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Initial Complexity and before Operational Simplicity.

Category

• Codebase / System Architecture Styles

In tension with

• Component-Based Architecture
• Component-Based Architecture / Integration Overhead

Linked from

• Codebase / System Architecture Styles
• The resolutions