code smell en · NOUN
Etymology
Analogous 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.
Meanings
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Anything in a program's source code that suggests the presence of a design problem.
A well-known code smell is as follows: a function should do one thing.
2021, Christian Clausen, Five Lines of Code: How and when to Refactor, Manning, →ISBN, page 4:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| code smells | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (2)
de Code-Smell (design problem in code) · fi koodihaju (design problem in code)