Narrow Specialized Behavior

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:narrow-specialized-behavior

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which honoring a base type's contract constrains a subtype from specializing its own behavior.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Interface Proliferation and before Extract Interface.

Category

• SOLID / Object-Oriented Design

In tension with

• Liskov Substitution Principle
• Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) / Narrow Specialized Behavior

Linked from

• SOLID / Object-Oriented Design
• The resolutions