Uncommunicative Name

Software is run by computers, but written and read by humans. Names provide important information to developers who are trying to understand a piece of code. Patterns and challenges when naming a method or class can also provide clues for refactoring.

Symptoms

• Difficulty understanding a method or class.
• Methods or classes with similar names but dissimilar functionality.
• Redundant names, such as names which include the type of object to which they refer.

Solutions

• Rename Method if a well-factored method isn’t well-named.
• Extract Class⭐ if a class is doing too much to have a meaningful name.
• Extract Method⭐ if a method is doing too much to have a meaningful name.
• Inline Class if a class is too abstract to have a meaningful name.