IT arhitektuur
According to the authors of
the latter, there must be at least two key elements present to formally distinguish an actual anti-
pattern from a simple bad habit, bad practice, or bad idea:
· Some repeated pattern of action, process or structure that initially appears to be beneficial,
but ultimately produces more bad consequences than beneficial results, and
· A refactored solution that is clearly documented, proven in actual practice and repeatable.
Often pejoratively named with clever oxymoronic neologisms, many anti-pattern ideas amount to
little more than mistakes, rants, unsolvable problems, or bad practices to be avoided if possible.
Sometimes called pitfalls or dark patterns, this informal use of the term has come to refer to
classes of commonly reinvented bad solutions to problems. Thus, many candidate anti-patterns
under debate would not be formally considered anti-patterns.