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Smell Feature Envy

Anti-pattern indicating need for refactoring

Andrei Solovev

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refactoring-fowlercode-smellmaintainability

Impact

A method that seems more interested in a class other than the one it actually is in. The most common focus of the envy is the data - a method that invokes half-a-dozen getting methods on another object to calculate some value.

Symptoms

  • Method uses more features of another class than its own
  • Method invokes many getters on another object
  • Method calculates values from another object's data

Source

Martin Fowler — Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1st Edition (1999)

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