Editing Code smell (section)

{{short description|Computer programming characteristic}}
In [[computer programming]], a '''code smell''' is any characteristic in the [[source code]] of a [[Computer program|program]] that possibly indicates a deeper problem.<ref name="Tufano2015">{{Cite book |chapter-url = http://www.cs.wm.edu/~denys/pubs/ICSE'15-BadSmells-CRC.pdf |doi = 10.1109/ICSE.2015.59 |isbn = 978-1-4799-1934-5|citeseerx = 10.1.1.709.6783|chapter = When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad |title = 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering |pages = 403–414 |year = 2015 |last1 = Tufano |first1 = Michele |last2 = Palomba |first2 = Fabio |last3 = Bavota |first3 = Gabriele |last4 = Oliveto |first4 = Rocco |last5 = Di Penta |first5 = Massimiliano |last6 = De Lucia |first6 = Andrea |last7 = Poshyvanyk |first7 = Denys |s2cid = 59100195 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Fowler|first1=Martin|title=CodeSmell|url=http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CodeSmell.html|website=martinfowler.com/|access-date=19 November 2014}}</ref> Determining what is and is not a code smell is subjective, and varies by [[Programming language|language]], developer, and development methodology.

The term was popularized by [[Kent Beck]] on [[WardsWiki]] in the late 1990s.<ref name="Cunningham">{{cite web |last1=Beck |first1=Kent |title=Code Smells |url=https://wiki.c2.com/?CodeSmell |website=WikiWikiWeb |publisher=Ward Cunningham |access-date=8 April 2020}}</ref> Usage of the term increased after it was featured in the 1999 book ''Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code'' by [[Martin Fowler (software engineer)|Martin Fowler]].<ref>{{cite book
 | first = Martin
 | last = Fowler
 | author-link = Martin Fowler (software engineer)
 | year = 1999
 | title = Refactoring. Improving the Design of Existing Code
 | publisher = Addison-Wesley
 | isbn = 978-0-201-48567-7
 | url-access = registration
 | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780201485677
 }}
</ref> It is also a term used by [[Agile software development|agile]] programmers.<ref name="In Praise Of Small Code">{{Cite web
|url= http://www.informationweek.com/architecture/in-praise-of-small-code/d/d-id/1098422
|title= In Praise Of Small Code
|first=  Andrew | last = Binstock
|publisher= Information Week
|date= 2011-06-27
|access-date= 2011-06-27}}
</ref>