Leaky abstraction

In software development, a leaky abstraction is an abstraction that exposes details and limitations of its underlying implementation to its users that should ideally be hidden away.

Leaky abstractions are considered problematic, since the purpose of abstractions is to manage complexity by concealing unnecessary details from the user.

See also

• [Abstraction (software engineering)]]
• Abstraction inversion
• Dependency inversion principle
• Essential complexity
• Modular programming
• Separation of concerns

External links

• Leaky abstraction @ Wikipedia