The more detail I put in an interface, the less reusable it is. On the other hand the less detail the more ethereal and useless it seems to become. Is there a standard set of recommendations about how to weigh this for various situations?
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The more detail I put in an interface, the less reusable it is. On the other hand the less detail the more ethereal and useless it seems to become. Is there a standard set of recommendations about how to weigh this for various situations?
I have just co-authored a paper on granularity (size) of components and one of our conclusions is that there is no simple way to determine “what’s right”. So no, there is no standard set of recommendations.
I can give you a couple of academic references on the subject just in case you’re interested:
Imperial College Press, London, UK (2005)
Seminar on Conceptual Modelling, April 27-30 2008 (preprint on conference website) (2008)