Although the “Long Method” or “Large Class” code smells are often the easiest ones to spot, one of my…
Identifiers are one of the most important parts of a program. They literally identify…
You don’t have to spend long as a developer before it becomes pretty obvious that the first universal “code…
A little while back I talked about a fun subject: comments as code smells. I received a fair amount of discussion and counter-viewpoints from readers on this topic. In fact, one fantastic reader Patrick Michaelsen went so far as to write a well-thought-out rebuttal.
I’m not sure what it is about the feature envy code smell that I like. It’s probably the name and the images it…
One of the more simple code smells to look for is Selector Arguments.
I know, long method? Come on. That’s an easy one: just don’t write long methods. Easy right?
Output parameters are simple. They are parameters passed into a function or method call that are modified during the function.
Output parameters are the kind of code smell that is sometimes difficult to see, but when they crop up they can cause a…
This is a specific case of the more general “Primitive Obsession” code smell. That code smell is very generic and includes many different variations. This is one of the variations that I think is worth discussing, as it teaches us a subtlety of the proper use of data…
