Standardize the Interface

Kind: technique

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: lexicon:standardize-the-interface

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for giving operations of one kind the same naming, shapes and conventions across a system.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Define Contract and before Tolerant Reader.

Category

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility

Refactors

• Protocol Compatibility
• Interoperability
• Uniform Interface
• Composability
• Interchangeability
• Pattern Consistency
• Standardization
• Convention over Configuration
• Principle of Least Surprise
• Governance

Linked from

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Core Modular Design
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Metadata / Self-Description / Declarative Systems
• Schema / Canonical Data / Semantics
• Security / Privacy / Compliance / Governance