Speculative Generality

This smell occurs where an abstraction is created based on speculated requirements. It is often unnecessary that makes things difficult to understand and maintain.

Related smells: Unutilized Abstraction Speculative Hierarchy

Reference

M. Fowler, “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”. Addison-Wesley, 1999.


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