Software Engineering
Metaphors used in the practice of building and maintaining software systems.
Mappings (65)
- A Place to Wait conceptual-metaphor
- Baklava Code conceptual-metaphor
- Big Ball of Mud conceptual-metaphor
- Bikeshedding dead-metaphor
- Boat Anchor dead-metaphor
- Boil the Ocean dead-metaphor
- Bottleneck dead-metaphor
- Bus Factor dead-metaphor
- Cargo Cult Programming dead-metaphor
- Code Smell dead-metaphor
- Data Flow Is Fluid Flow paradigm
- Deep Magic dead-metaphor
- Dogfooding dead-metaphor
- Duck Typing dead-metaphor
- Fear-Driven Development dead-metaphor
- Firewall dead-metaphor
- God Object conceptual-metaphor
- Golden Hammer conceptual-metaphor
- Heisenbug conceptual-metaphor
- Hydra Code conceptual-metaphor
- Intimacy Gradient conceptual-metaphor
- Jenga Code conceptual-metaphor
- Lava Flow dead-metaphor
- Light on Two Sides conceptual-metaphor
- Magic Number dead-metaphor
- Main Entrance conceptual-metaphor
- Monkey-Patching dead-metaphor
- Orphan Process dead-metaphor
- Pattern Language as Shared Vocabulary paradigm
- Program Failure Is Bodily Failure conceptual-metaphor
- Race Condition dead-metaphor
- Rubber Duck Debugging conceptual-metaphor
- Shotgun Debugging dead-metaphor
- Software Rot dead-metaphor
- Spaghetti Code dead-metaphor
- Technical Debt dead-metaphor
- The Abstract Factory Pattern archetype
- The Adapter Pattern archetype
- The Builder Pattern archetype
- The Chain of Responsibility Pattern archetype
- The Command Pattern archetype
- The Composite Pattern archetype
- The Decorator Pattern archetype
- The Facade Pattern archetype
- The Factory Pattern archetype
- The Gateway Pattern archetype
- The Interpreter Pattern archetype
- The Iterator Pattern dead-metaphor
- The Mediator Pattern archetype
- The Memento Pattern archetype
- The Observer Pattern archetype
- The Pipeline Pattern archetype
- The Prototype Pattern archetype
- The Proxy Pattern archetype
- The Registry Pattern archetype
- The Repository Pattern archetype
- The Singleton Pattern archetype
- The State Pattern dead-metaphor
- The Strategy Pattern archetype
- The Template Method Pattern archetype
- The Unit of Work Pattern archetype
- The Visitor Pattern archetype
- Yak Shaving dead-metaphor
- Yo-Yo Problem dead-metaphor
- Zombie Process dead-metaphor