Expecting but not getting a collection

The name of a method suggests that a collection should be returned but a single object or nothing is returned.

Example: method getStats with return type Boolean.

Related smells: Expecting but not getting a single instance

Reference

Venera Arnaoudova, Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol. “Linguistic antipatterns: what they are and how developers perceive them". in Empirical Software Engineering (ESEM), 21(1), Feb 2016. 104-158. 10.1007/s10664-014-9350-8