# Tree Compactness

> The degree to which a small module can stay in few files and folders rather than expanding into one concern folder per role.

Record: `lexicon:tree-compactness`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Structural Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/structural-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-tree-compactness

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Naming Expressiveness](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/naming-expressiveness.md) and before [Classification Judgment](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/classification-judgment.md).

## Category

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/taxonomy-classification-naming.md)

## In tension with

- [Bounded Nesting Depth](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/bounded-nesting-depth.md)
- [Bounded Nesting Depth / Tree Compactness](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/bounded-nesting-depth-tree-compactness.md)

## Linked from

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-taxonomy-classification-naming.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)