Template Method Pattern / Inheritance Coupling
Kind: tension
Record: tension:inheritance-coupling-template-method-pattern
Canonical: Schema
"template-method-pattern" (design-patterns-core layer) is traded against "Inheritance Coupling" (design-patterns-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Inheritance Coupling" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Strategy Pattern / Class Count and before Observer Pattern / Ordering.