Deficient Encapsulation

This smell occurs when the declared accessibility of one or more members of an abstraction is more permissive than actually required.

Tools

The following set of tools detects this smell: Designite(for C#) DesigniteJava(for Java)

Reference

G. Suryanarayana, G. Samarthyam, T. Sharma, “Refactoring for Software Design Smells: Managing Technical Debt”. Morgan Kaufmann, 2014.