Are comments code smells?
Comments are usually created with the best of intentions, when the author realizes that his or her code isn’t intuitive or obvious. In such cases, comments are like a deodorant masking the smell of fishy code that could be improved. The best comment is a good name for a method or class.
How do you fix sonar bugs?
Issues lifecycle
- Open – set by SonarQube on new issues.
- Confirmed – set manually to indicate that the issue is valid.
- Resolved – set manually to indicate that the next analysis should Close the issue.
- Reopened – set automatically by SonarQube when a Resolved issue hasn’t actually been corrected.
What is the meaning of a code smell?
A code smell is a surface indication that usually corresponds to a deeper problem in the system. The term was first coined by Kent Beck while helping me with my Refactoring book. The quick definition above contains a couple of subtle points. Firstly a smell is by definition something that’s quick to spot – or sniffable as I’ve recently put it.
Is the lack of comments a code smell?
No amount of reading the code could tell you this so it positively, absolutely, had to have a comment – and it wasn’t a smell, at least not in code over which we had control (which is the bottom line). A complete and utter lack of comments is as much a smell as poor comments.
Is it possible to detect a bad smell in a code?
Many smells are not possible to be found by manual reviewing and automated code review tools are used for identifying such bad smells. Code smells knowing or unknowingly are introduced in the source code, and may also form if you are solving other smells.
When did Kent Beck invent the code smell?
9 February 2006. A code smell is a surface indication that usually corresponds to a deeper problem in the system. The term was first coined by Kent Beck while helping me with my Refactoring book. The quick definition above contains a couple of subtle points.