Validation method does not confirm

A validation method (e.g., name starting with “validate”, “check”, “ensure”) does not confirm the validation, i.e., the method neither provides a return value informing whether the validation was successful, nor documents how to proceed.

Related smells: Transform method does not return

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