code smell
English edit
Etymology edit
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.
Noun edit
code smell (plural code smells)
- (programming) Anything in a program's source code that suggests the presence of a design problem.
Translations edit
design problem in code
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See also edit
Further reading edit
- code smell on Wikipedia.Wikipedia