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

Anti-patterns are commonly used ways of doing software engineering that are not useful or cause more issues than they solve. See design patterns for the...

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

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

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

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...

is a subset of the serverless computing ecosystem. The "Grain of Sand Anti-pattern" refers to the creation of excessively small components (e.g., functions)...

reduced observability. These anti-patterns are associated with the formation of a distributed monolith. These anti-patterns are often addressed through...

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...

domains. The following architectural anti-patterns can arise when architects make decisions. These anti-patterns often follow a progressive sequence,...

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...

Architecture. The following architectural anti-patterns can arise when architects make decisions. These anti-patterns often follow a progressive sequence,...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

the object-oriented paradigm. An ambiguous or mixed viewpoint is an anti-pattern. In object-oriented analysis and design there are three viewpoints: The...

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...

software engineering, an amelioration pattern is an anti-pattern formed when an existing software design pattern was edited (i.e. rearranged, added or...

Forever). This last behavior is an example of a software development anti-pattern.[citation needed] Continuous obsolescence may also be intentional, for...

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:...

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...

program. Hard coding is often required, but can also be considered an anti-pattern. Programmers may not have a dynamic user interface solution for the end...