Yet more code smells? Aren't them enough? We see several symptoms and situations that make us doubt the quality of our development. Let's look at some possible . solutions Most of these smells are just hints of something that might be wrong. They are not rigid rules. This is part V. Part I can be found , Part II , Part III is , Part IV , , , VII and (for now). here here here here part V VI the last one Let's continue... Code Smell 41 - Regular Expression Abusers RegEx are a wonderful tool, we should to use them carefully and not to look smart. Photo by on John Jennings Unsplash Problems Readability Maintainability Testability Intention Revealing Solutions Use regular expression just for string validation. If you need to manipulate objects, don't make them strings. Sample Code Wrong Right Detection Regular expressions are a valid tool. There's not much automated way of checking for possible abusers. A whitelist might be of help. Tags Primitive Obsession Abusers Conclusion Regular expressions are a great tool for string validation. We must use them in a declarative way and just for strings. Names are very important to understand pattern meanings. If we need to manipulate objects or hierarchies, we should do it in an . object way Unless we have a conclusive benchmark of performance improvement. impressive More info What Exactly Is A Name: The Quest [Part I] A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. Larry Wall Code Smell 42 - Warnings/Strict Mode Off Compilers and warnings lights are there for help. Don't ignore them. Photo by on Noah Dominic Silvio Unsplash Problems Missed Errors Ripple Effect Fail Fast Solutions Enable all warnings. Enable preconditions and assertions in production. Fail fast Design by contract Sample Code Wrong Right Detection Most languages have warning levels. We should turn most of them . ON We should run linters to statically analyze our code for potential problems. Tags Fail Fast Conclusion If we ignore warnings and the code moves on sooner or later it will fail. If the software fails it will be very difficult for us to find root cause. later Defect will likely be near first warning and far away from the crash. If we follow the , we should not tolerate any warnings, so a new issue will not pass unnoticed in a sea of warnings. Broken Windows Theory tolerated More info Fail Fast Philosophy, Explained https://blog.rahulism.co/use-strict-in-javascript One man's crappy software is another man's full time job. Jessica Gaston Code Smell 43 - Concrete Classes Subclassified Inheritance. Concrete classes. Reuse. A fantastic mix up. Problems Bad Models Coupling Violation Liskov Substitution Method overriding fault Mapper Solutions Subclasses should be specializations. Refactor Hierarchies. Favor Composition. Leaf classes should be concrete. Not leaf classes should be abstract. Sample Code Wrong Right Detection Overriding a concrete method is a clear smell. We can enforce these policies on most linters. Abstract classes should have just a few concrete methods. We can check against a predefined threshold for offenders. Tags Composition Conclusion Accidental sub-classification is the first obvious advantage for junior developers. More mature ones find composition opportunities instead. Composition is dynamic, multiple, pluggable, more testable, more maintainable and less coupled than inheritance. Only sub-classify an entity if it follows the relationships . behaves like After sub-classing the parent class should be abstract. More info Composition over inheritance Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container. Nathan Myhrvold Code Smell 44 - Magic Corrections Compilers are smarter than us. On a Friday night production deploy they betray us. Photo by on Senor Sosa Unsplash Problems Fail Fast Declarativeness Ambiguity Solutions Fail Fast Do not trust magic coercions. Be Explicit Examples Type Casting Sample Code Wrong Right Detection Many of this vicious are encouraged by languages themselves. We should be very declarative and explicit and don't abuse language accidental magic solutions. Tags Declarative Smart Conclusion Programmers pretend to be smart by exploiting language features. They feel they belong to that enforce bad behaviors like a sect. community standards More Info Fail Fast Philosophy, Explained Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. Bruce Sterling Code Smell 45 - Not Polymorphic Methods should be interchangeable if they do the same. Problems Missed Polymorphism Coupling IFs / Type check Polluting. Names coupled to types. How to Get Rid of Annoying IFs Forever Solutions Rename methods after what they do. Favor polymorphism. Sample Code Wrong Right Detection This is a semantic mistake. We could add a warning for method names on Polymorphic classes. similar Tags Polymorphic Conclusion Naming is very important. We need to name after concepts and not after accidental types. More info What Exactly Is A Name: Rehab [Part II] If you have three pet dogs, give them names. If you have 10,000 head of cattle, don't bother. Nowadays, the idea of giving a name to every file on your computer is ridiculous. David Gelernter We are done for now. But we are pretty sure we will come across even more smells very soon! I keep getting more suggestions on , so they won't be the last! twitter

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