Simplicity

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Human Factors

Record: lexicon:simplicity

Canonical: Lexicon

The absence of unnecessary structure, keeping a system easy to understand and change.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Security and before Debuggability.

Category

• Quality Attributes

In tension with

• Do Not Repeat Yourself
• Abstraction
• Open/Closed Principle
• Error Handling
• Command Pattern
• Iterator Pattern
• Factory Pattern
• Scalability
• Do Not Repeat Yourself (DRY) / Simplicity
• Abstraction / Simplicity
• Open/Closed Principle (OCP) / Simplicity
• Error Handling / Simplicity
• Command Pattern / Simplicity
• Iterator Pattern / Simplicity
• Factory Pattern / Simplicity
• Scalability / Simplicity

Reinforced by

• Minimum Viable Architecture
• First-Principles Design
• Vertical Scaling

Linked from

• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Core Modular Design
• SOLID / Object-Oriented Design
• Error Handling / Resilience
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Behavioral Patterns
• Creational Patterns
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Transactions / State / Concurrency
• The resolutions