Unutilized Abstraction

This smell arises when an abstraction is left unused (either not directly used or not reachable).

Related smells: Speculative Generality Obsolete Classes Unused Packages

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.