You may have heard the term “code smells” lately, it seems its being talked about frequently again. In this short post I’ll explain what they are, and a few of them you may run across. What is a Code Smell? A Code Smell is just a fancy word for an indicator of a bigger problem with your code. It’s language agnostic because you can have code smells in any application. It’s just a sign of bad construction that you can spot fairly quickly.
