Y.-P. Cheng and J.-R. Liao (Taiwan)
Bad Code Smells, Ontology, Taxonomy, Refactoring
“Bad code smell” or “spaghetti code” is a jargon used among programmers to refer to source code that is diffi cult to maintain, evolve, and change. We consider them as symptoms of poor software engineering practice. This paper presents an application of concept of ontology to de velop a bad code smell taxonomy. We develop a taxon omy hierarchy which categorizes bad code smells from the viewpoints of refactoring. A more formal format is intro duced to define the bad code smells more concretely. Be sides, the relations among bad code smells, called semantic relations in ontology terms, are explored and established. The ontology can be used for reasoning in other applica tions.
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