Parallel Inheritance Hierarchies

This smell occurs when introducing a subclass of one class leads to creation of another subclass of another class. It is a special case of shotgun surgery.

Reference

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


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