Wide Hierarchy

This smell arises when an inheritance hierarchy is "too" wide indicating that intermediate types may be missing.

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.