Fixing your own smells: Adding a mistake-based familiarization step when teaching code refactoring

• Main Authors: TAN, Ivan Wei Han, POSKITT, Christopher M.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: Refactoring; code smells; code quality; software maintenance; software engineering; mistake-based learning; undergraduate course; Programming Languages and Compilers; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8669; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9672/viewcontent/3626252.3630856.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Programming problems can be solved in a multitude of functionally correct ways, but the quality of these solutions (e.g. readability, maintainability) can vary immensely. When code quality is poor, symptoms emerge in the form of 'code smells', which are specific negative characteristics (e...