Move Behavior to Its Owner

Kind: technique

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:move-behavior-to-its-owner

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for moving a method or function to the module that owns the data it reads and writes.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Split Module and before Extract Function.

Category

• Core Modular Design

Refactors

• God Object
• Shotgun Surgery
• Divergent Change
• Feature Envy
• Message Chain
• Utility Dump
• Explicit Boundaries
• Single Responsibility Principle
• Separation of Concerns
• High Cohesion
• Layered Architecture

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Domain Architecture
• Core Modular Design
• Codebase / System Architecture Styles