A special case of Remove Method

Motivation

Unfortunately, many programmers (and IDEs) tend to generate setters for all instance variables/fields. (See Replace Setter for reasons of that bad behavior.)

Mechanics

  • Find all calls to the setter.
  • If there are none remove it.

Warning: you may not find all calls with static code analysis, as many frameworks rely on getters and setters to work their dynamic magic.

Example(s)