# Tooling Complexity

> The effort required to set up, learn, and maintain the tools a technique or approach depends on.

Record: `lexicon:tooling-complexity`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Human Factors](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/human-factors.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-tooling-complexity

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Team Autonomy](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/team-autonomy.md) and before [User Experience](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/user-experience.md).

## Category

- [Quality Attributes](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/quality-attributes.md)

## In tension with

- [Infrastructure as Code](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/infrastructure-as-code.md)
- [Statecharts](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/statecharts.md)
- [Infrastructure as Code / Tooling Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/infrastructure-as-code-tooling-complexity.md)
- [Statecharts / Tooling Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/statecharts-tooling-complexity.md)

## Linked from

- [Portability / Infrastructure / Deployment](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-portability-infrastructure-deployment.md)
- [Behavioral Patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-behavioral-patterns.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)