Beware of non-communicating methods

Beware of classes which have too much non-communicating behavior, i.e. methods which operate on a proper subset of the data members of a class. God classes often exhibit lots of non-communicating behavior. --Riel's Heuristic 3.4, Arthur Riel 1996

Derived from Separate methods that do not communicate.

See also

• Separate methods that do not communicate
• Johnson and Foote 1988