Table 2 Types of code smell
From: On the identification of design problems in stinky code: experiences and tool support
Type | Description |
|---|---|
God class | Long and complex class that centralizes the intelligence of the system |
Brain method | Long and complex method that centralizes the intelligence of a class |
Data class | Class that contains data but not behavior related to the data |
Dispersed coupling | The case of an operation which is excessively tied to many other operations in the system, and additionally these provider methods that are dispersed among many classes |
Feature envy | Method that calls more methods of a single external class than the internal methods of its own inner class |
Intensive coupling | When a method is tied to many other operations in the system, whereby these provider operations are dispersed only into one or a few classes |
Refused bequest | Subclass that does not use the protected methods of its superclass |
Shotgun surgery | This smell is evident when you must change lots of pieces of code in different places simply to add a new or extended piece of behavior |
Tradition breaker | Subclass that provides a large set of services that are unrelated to services provided by the superclass |