An anti-pattern in software engineering, project management, and business processes is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective...
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In software engineering, the singleton pattern is a software design pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to a singular instance. One of...
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AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis is a book about anti-patterns: specific repeated practices in software architecture...
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Algorithmic skeleton Anti-pattern Architectural pattern Canonical protocol pattern Debugging patterns Design pattern Distributed design patterns Double-chance...
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more complex way of connecting objects. Critics of the pattern argue that it is an anti-pattern which obscures dependencies and makes software harder to...
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A dark pattern (also known as a "deceptive design pattern") is "a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such...
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model § Examples. Style guide Design paradigm Anti-pattern Dark pattern Alexander, Christopher (1977). A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction....
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specialists[who?] in this field who consider balking more of an anti-pattern than a design pattern. If an object cannot support its API, it should either limit...
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Poltergeist (computer programming) (category Anti-patterns)
invoke methods in another, more permanent class. It is considered an anti-pattern. The original definition is by Michael Akroyd 1996 - Object World West...
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The Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP) is a digital military camouflage pattern formerly used by the United States Army in their Army Combat Uniform. Technicians...
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God object (category Anti-patterns)
methods, or some combination of both. The god object is an example of an anti-pattern and a code smell. A common programming technique is to separate a large...
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Lava flow (programming) (category Anti-patterns)
In computer programming jargon, lava flow is an anti-pattern that occurs when computer source code written under sub-optimal conditions is deployed into...
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Interface bloat (category Anti-patterns)
operations. Interface bloat is an example of an anti-pattern. One might consider using visitor pattern, Adapter Pattern, or interface segregation instead. v t...
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Anemic domain model (category Anti-patterns)
The anemic domain model is described as a programming anti-pattern where the domain objects contain little or no business logic like validations, calculations...
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Double-checked locking (redirect from Double checked locking pattern)
it is hard to get right. Some consider it to be an anti-pattern. There are valid forms of the pattern, including the use of the volatile keyword in Java...
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Action at a distance is an anti-pattern in computer science in which behavior in one part of a program varies wildly based on difficult or impossible to...
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computer programming workarounds are often used to address a problem or anti-pattern in a library, such as an incorrect return value. When the library is...
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Database-as-IPC (category Anti-patterns)
In computer programming, Database-as-IPC may be considered an anti-pattern where a disk persisted table in a database is used as the message queue store...
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Call super (category Anti-patterns)
Call super is a code smell or anti-pattern of some object-oriented programming languages. Call super is a design pattern in which a particular class stipulates...
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software engineering, an amelioration pattern is an anti-pattern formed when an existing software design pattern was edited (i.e. rearranged, added or...
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Inner-platform effect (category Anti-patterns)
inefficient and such systems are often considered to be examples of an anti-pattern. Examples are visible in plugin-based software such as some text editors...
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Sequential coupling (category Anti-patterns)
requires its methods to be called in a particular sequence. This may be an anti-pattern, depending on context. Methods whose name starts with Init, Begin, Start...
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Magic pushbutton (category Anti-patterns)
The magic pushbutton is a common anti-pattern in graphical user interfaces. At its core, the anti-pattern consists of a system partitioned into two parts:...
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Antinuclear antibody (redirect from Anti-nuclear antibody)
such as anti-Ro antibodies, anti-La antibodies, anti-Sm antibodies, anti-nRNP antibodies, anti-Scl-70 antibodies, anti-dsDNA antibodies, anti-histone...
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OS/360 on the 360 series, which happened in 1964. Engineering portal Anti-pattern Feature creep Inner-platform effect Osborne effect Sophomore slump Unix...
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Boat anchor (metaphor) (category Anti-patterns)
codebase, typically in case it is needed later. This is an example of an anti-pattern and therefore can cause many problems for people attempting to maintain...
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up with a worse result than the standard (a square wheel). This is an anti-pattern which occurs when the engineer is unaware or contemptuous of the standard...
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Continuous obsolescence (category Anti-patterns)
Forever). This last behavior is an example of a software development anti-pattern. Continuous obsolescence may also be intentional, for example when an...
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Shotgun surgery (category Anti-patterns)
Shotgun surgery is an anti-pattern in software development which occurs when a developer adds features to an application codebase which span a multiplicity...
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Stovepipe system (category Anti-patterns)
— DOE 1999 A stovepipe system is generally considered an example of an anti-pattern, particularly found in legacy systems. This is due to the lack of code...
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