Factory Pattern / Simplicity

Kind: tension

Record: tension:factory-pattern-simplicity

Canonical: Schema

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

Listed in Tensions, after Statecharts / Tooling Complexity and before Factory Method Pattern / Inheritance Complexity.

In tension with

• Factory Pattern
• Simplicity

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Creational Patterns
• Resolution mechanisms