Anti-patterns

design pattern in object-oriented software development

pejorative phrase for source code that has a complex and tangled control structure reminiscent of spaghetti

An anti-pattern is a solution to a class of problem which may be commonly used but is likely to be ineffective or counterproductive. The term, coined in 1995 by Andrew Koenig, was inspired by the book Design Patterns which highlights software development design patterns that its authors consider to be reliable and effective. A paper in 1996 presented by Michael Ackroyd at the Object World West Conference described anti-patterns. It was, however, the 1998 book AntiPatterns that both popularized the idea and extended its scope beyond the field of software design to include software architecture

user interface designed for a user to make choices without being aware of them

computer programming technique in which a process repeatedly checks to see if a condition is true

state of over-analyzing which leads to decision delay and worse outcome

sequence of bytes used to identify or indicate the format of a file

software development practice of embedding data into the source code

cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool

programming term

problem in which computer code written under suboptimal conditions is put into production and added to while still in a developmental state; results in a need to maintain backward compatibility with the original, incomplete design

programming anti-pattern

computer programming anti-pattern

input which activates otherwise hidden functionality

undesirable phenomenon in software engineering