leaky abstraction

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Etymology[edit]

Popularised in 2002 by software engineer Joel Spolsky.

Noun[edit]

leaky abstraction (plural leaky abstractions)

  1. (software engineering) An abstraction that undesirably exposes details and limitations of its underlying implementation.
    • 2015, Suhas Chatekar, Learning NHibernate 4, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 291:
      This is a classic case of leaky abstraction. Repository is supposed to abstract away any concerns around querying the database, but now what we are doing here is returning an IQueryable<T> to the consuming code and asking it to build the queries, thus leaking the abstraction that is supposed to be hidden into repository.
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