Measured Smells

Bill Wake is a great teacher. He has blogged about his involvement with NASAGA [2], ( the North American Simulation and Gaming Association [3]) and his teaching benefits from his continual search for the best way to convey a particular topic. In this excerpt from Refactoring Workbook [4], published by Addison-Wesley, Bill writes about "Measured Smells". These are easily identified places in your code that are crying out for improvement. You can recognize them by the following smells: comments, long method, large class, and long parameter list.

We are presenting this book excerpt as a PDF download. The file size is a little over 180K. Download Chapter 3: "Measured Smells" [5].

William C. Wake [1] has been using Java since 1.0.2. He is the author of the 'Refactoring Workbook' and 'Extreme Programming Explored.'