Lexicon

Over-Specialization

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:over-specialization

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which pursuing tight cohesion can narrow a unit's purpose too far to reuse.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Over-Layering and before Performance Overhead.

Category

  • Core Modular Design

In tension with

  • High Cohesion
  • High Cohesion / Over-Specialization

Linked from

  • Core Modular Design
  • The resolutions