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Natural Coupling

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A natural coupling is a coupling between classes which represent concepts which are dependent in the same way.

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The following couplings are natural ones:

  • Library depending on Book
  • Stopwatch depending on Time
  • Order depending on OrderItem
  • OrderProxy depending on Order

The following couplings are artificial:

  • Time depending on Stopwatch (time should be meaningful without a stopwatch)
  • OrderItem depending on Order (an order item way at least be viewed separately from the order whereas an order without any items is not an order anymore)
  • Order depending on DatabaseConnection (an order which is not persisted is normally still an order, the dependency is not necessary from a conceptual point of view)
  • Order depending on OrderProxy

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glossary/natural_coupling.txt · Last modified: 2013-08-11 13:57 by christian