An anti-pattern in software engineering, project management, and business processes is a common response to a recurring problem that is usually ineffective...

In object-oriented programming, the singleton pattern is a software design pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to a singular instance....

AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis is a book about anti-patterns: specific repeated practices in software architecture...

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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...

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...

model § Examples. Style guide Design paradigm Anti-pattern Dark pattern Alexander, Christopher (1977). A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction....

The Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP) is a digital military camouflage pattern formerly used by the United States Army in their Army Combat Uniform. Technicians...

The anemic domain model is described as a programming anti-pattern where the domain objects contain little or no business logic like validations, calculations...

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...

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...

invoke methods in another, more permanent class. It is considered an anti-pattern. The original definition is by Michael Akroyd at the 1996 Object World...

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...

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...

In computer programming jargon, lava flow is an anti-pattern that occurs when computer source code written under sub-optimal conditions is deployed into...

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...

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...

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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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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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...

Shotgun surgery is an anti-pattern in software development which occurs when a developer adds features to an application codebase which span a multiplicity...

operations. Interface bloat is an example of an anti-pattern. One might consider using visitor pattern, Adapter Pattern, or interface segregation instead. Interface...

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:...

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...

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...

— 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...

appear at every decision point. Analysis paralysis is an example of an anti-pattern. Agile software development methodologies explicitly seek to prevent...

concept such as a design pattern, tests are written that generate that design. The code may remain simpler than the target pattern, but still pass all required...