Dependency Antipatterns – Clotheslines

This is the third part in my little series about dependency anti-patterns. The first part was about the God Node, the second one about the Bypass Images and nomenclature are based on Degraph. When you have two slices with lots of parallel connections as in the image on the side, you found this patterns. Just [...]

Dependency Antipatterns – The Bypass

This is the second part in my little series about dependency anti-patterns. The first part was about the God Node. Images and nomenclature are based on Degraph. As long as the affected nodes are collapsed the Bypass looks just like any circular dependency. But if you expand them something strange happens. In one node (A) [...]

Dependency Antipatterns – God Node

I wrote before about the dependency analysis and visualization tool Degraph. When you use such a tool to examine various projects you will find some patterns that stick out like a sore thumb. This is a first articles about  such antipatterns, including my interpretation of what is going wrong and how to fix it. I’m [...]