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code smell: a standalone construct

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Software engineering

surface symptoms in source code that hint at deeper design problems and a need for refactoring.

In software engineering, code smell refers to surface symptoms in source code that hint at deeper design problems and a need for refactoring. This meaning comes from Fowler (1999) in Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code.[1]

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Fowler, M. (1999). Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0201485672

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