code smell
code smell · code smells
Code-Smell
Anything in a program's source code that suggests the presence of a design problemAnything in a program's source code that suggests the presence of a design problem.
Meaning
1 sensesAnything in a program's source code that suggests the presence of a design problem.
Code-Smell
Translations
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By meaning 1
design problem in code:
Origin
Analogous to a bad smell indicating e.g. rotten food. Apparently coined by American softwaAnalogous to a bad smell indicating e.g. rotten food. Apparently coined by American software engineer Kent Beck, in the late 1990s. Popularized via the book Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, co-authored by Beck.
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Forms
plural: code smells| Singular | code smell |
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