Class with Excessive Number of Child Classes

Opis

A class contains an unnecessarily large number of children.

While the interpretation of "large number of children" may vary for each product or developer, CISQ recommends a default maximum of 10 child classes.

Skutki

• Other

  Reduce Maintainability; Increase Analytical Complexity

  This issue makes it more difficult to understand and maintain the software, which indirectly affects security by making it more difficult or time-consuming to find and/or fix vulnerabilities. It also might make it easier to introduce vulnerabilities.

Słabość nadrzędna

• CWE-1093 Excessively Complex Data Representation

Kiedy powstaje

• Implementation

Dotyczy

Object-Oriented

Źródła

1. Automated Source Code Maintainability Measure (ASCMM) — Object Management Group (OMG), ASCMM-MNT-18, 2016