Development Anti Pattern Road Map

This page is an attempt of classification of DevelopmentAntiPatterns.

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Developer teams related AntiPatterns

• AlcoholFueledDevelopment
• CannotCleanCode
• ControlFreak
• JobKeeper
• PathOfLeastResistance

Scoping related AntiPatterns

• AmbiguousViewpoint
• CreepingFeaturitis
• DeadEnd
• HiddenRequirements
• KitchenSinkDesign
• RequirementsTossedOverTheWall
• SpecifyNothing

Design related AntiPatterns

• AccidentalComplexity
• AccidentalInclusion
• AddingEpicycles
• DesignForTheSakeOfDesign
• FloatingPointCurrency
• FloatingPointFractions
• FunctionalDecomposition
• GrenadeMessage
• GoldenHammer
• ImplementationInheritance
• JunkyardCoding
• MagicContainer
• OverGeneralizationOfBusinessLogic
• OverUseOfPatterns
• PolterGeists
• SecretSociety
• TheGrandOldDukeOfYork
• TowerOfVoodoo

Code related AntiPatterns

• AsynchronousUnitTesting
• BigBallOfMud
• CopyAndPasteProgramming
• CrciCards
• DbClass
• ExceptionFunnel
• GodClass
• IfItIsWorkingDontChange
• InputKludge
• LavaFlow
• NullFlag
• PassingNullsToConstructors
• RubeGoldbergMachine
• SingleFunctionExitPoint
• SpaghettiCode
• StringWithoutLength
• SweepItUnderTheRugAntiPattern
• TrainWreck
• TheBlob
• VoodooChickenCoding
• WalkingThroughaMineField
• ZeroMeansNull

UI related AntiPatterns

• CascadingDialogBoxesAntiPattern
• PhatWareAntiPattern

Software strategy related AntiPatterns

• BearTrap?
• BoatAnchor
• ContinuousObsolescence
• NotInventedHere
• VendorLockIn
• WolfTicket

Tools related AntiPatterns

• FoolTrap

Development process related AntiPatterns

• ItsAnOperatorProblem
• ThatsNotReallyAnIssue

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See also:

• CategoryCodeSmell
• ManagementAntiPatternRoadMap
• ArchitectureAntiPatternRoadMap
• AntiPatternsCatalog

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