Strategy Pattern / Class Count

Kind: tension

Record: tension:class-count-strategy-pattern

Canonical: Schema

"strategy-pattern" (design-patterns-core layer) is traded against "Class Count" (design-patterns-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Class Count" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Dashboards / Dashboard Sprawl and before Template Method Pattern / Inheritance Coupling.

In tension with

• Strategy Pattern
• Class Count

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Behavioral Patterns
• Resolution mechanisms