Silent No-Op Risk

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Design Patterns Core

Record: lexicon:silent-no-op-risk

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which a do-nothing stand-in can hide an error.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Memory Footprint and before State Explosion.

Category

• Behavioral Patterns

In tension with

• Null Object Pattern
• Null Object Pattern / Silent No-Op Risk

Linked from

• Behavioral Patterns
• The resolutions