A Taxonomy and an Initial Empirical Study of Bad Smells in Code

  • Authors:
  • Mika Mäntylä;Jari Vanhanen;Casper Lassenius

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents research in progress, as well astentative findings related to the empirical study of socalled bad code smells. We present a taxonomy that categorizessimilar bad smells. We believe the taxonomymakes the smells more understandable and recognizes therelationships between smells. Additionally, we present ourinitial findings from an empirical study of the use of thesmells for evaluating code quality in a small Finnishsoftware product company. Our findings indicate that thetaxonomy for the smells could help explain the identifiedcorrelations between the subjective evaluations of theexistence of the smells.