Locality of Behavior

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:locality-of-behavior

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which keeping related behavior together can conflict with removing all duplication.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Excessive Fragmentation and before Over-Generalization.

Category

• Core Modular Design

In tension with

• Do Not Repeat Yourself
• Do Not Repeat Yourself (DRY) / Locality of Behavior

Linked from

• Separate, trade, or mitigate
• Architectural rules and principles
• Core Modular Design
• Quality Attributes
• The resolutions