Code Smells

Smells are indicators of where your code might be hard to read, maintain or evolve, rather than things that are specifically wrong. Naturally this means that Reek is looking towards your code’s future (and that can make its reports seem somewhat subjective, of course).

Reek currently includes very naive checks for the following smells:

• Attribute (since release 1.2.2; disabled by default)
• Class Variable (since release 1.2.1)
• Control Couple
• Data Clump (since release 1.1.3.15)
• Duplication
• Feature Envy
• Large Class
• Long Method
• Long Parameter List
• Nested Iterators
• Simulated Polymorphism (since release 1.1.3.14)
• Uncommunicative Name
• Utility Function