Explicit Contracts / Rapid Prototyping
Kind: tension
Record: tension:explicit-contracts-rapid-prototyping
Canonical: Schema
"explicit-contracts" (contracts-core layer) is traded against "Rapid Prototyping" (contracts-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Rapid Prototyping" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Design by Contract / Development Speed and before Stable Interfaces / Evolution Speed.