Anti-Pattern

Introduction

An anti-pattern is a typical response to a recurring problem, which is usually ineffective and risks being highly counterproductive. Anti-patterns are generally the result of a manager or developer who didn’t know better, who didn’t have enough expertise or experience in solving a certain sort of problem, or who implemented a perfectly fine pattern in the wrong context. Anti-patterns are not occasional mistakes; they are common and always made with good intentions.

Factors that result in anti-patterns

Let’s discuss the factors that cause anti-patterns:

• Bad software design usually results in an anti-pattern.
• Short-term fixes can cause anti-patterns because they may work for us in the short term but can cause trouble for us in the future.
• Implementing the right pattern in the wrong way can cause an anti-pattern.

Drawbacks

Let’s discuss some drawbacks of anti-patterns:

• They create a lot of bugs and can waste a developer’s time during debugging.
• They can make the code difficult to test in the code-testing phase.
• They result in code that is difficult to comprehend.
• Applying the wrong pattern to a problem can reduce the code’s performance.