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In this tutorial, we introduce a comprehensive catalog, classification, and naming scheme for design smells to the participants. We discuss important structural design smells based on how they violate the four key object oriented design principles (abstraction, encapsulation, modularization, and hierarchy). Smells are illustrated through design smells found in OpenJDK (Open source Java Development Kit) code base, with discussions on refactoring strategies for addressing them.

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Girish Suryanarayana, Ganesh Samarthyam, Tushar Sharma

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Outline

Introduction – Design Quality,Technical Debt, and Design Smells

Design Smells Catalog – Examplesand corresponding Refactoring

The Smell Ecosystem and RepayingTechnical Debt in Practice

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Outline

Introduction – Design Quality,Technical Debt, and Design Smells

Design Smells Catalog – Examplesand corresponding Refactoring

The Smell Ecosystem and RepayingTechnical Debt in Practice

Capers Jones on design errors in industrial software

* http://sqgne.org/presentations/2012-13/Jones-Sep-2012.pdf

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IBM Corportation(MVS)

SPR Corporation(Client Studies)

TRW Corporation MITRE Corporation Nippon ElectricCorp

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Industry Data on Defect Origins

Adminstrative Errors

Documentation Errors

Bad Fixes

Coding Errors

Design Errors

Requirements Errors

Up to 64% of software defects canbe traced back to errors in

software design in enterprisesoftware!

Why care about design quality?

Poor software qualitycosts more than $150billion per year in U.S. andgreater than $500 billionper year worldwide

The debt that accrues whenyou knowingly orunknowingly make wrong ornon-optimal design decisions

SoftwareQuality

TechnicalDebt

DesignQuality

Design Quality meanschangeability, extensibility,

understandability,reusability, ...

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Why care about technical debt?

Global 'IT Debt‘ is $500 billion for theyear 2010, with potential to grow to $1

trillion by 2015

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What constitutes technical debt?

Code debt

Static analysistool violations

Inconsistentcoding style

Design debt

Design smells

Violations ofdesign rules

Test debt

Lack of tests

Inadequate testcoverage

Documentationdebt

Nodocumentationfor important

concerns

Outdateddocumentation

“Design smells” aka…

“Smells are certain structures in the code that suggest (sometimes theyscream for) the possibility of refactoring.”

What is a smell?

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Why care about smells?

Impacted Quality§ Reusability§ Changeability§ Understandability§ Extensibility§ …

ProductQuality

DesignQuality

DesignSmells

Impacted Quality§ Maintainability: Affected

by changeability &extensibility

§ Reliability: Impacted bypoor understandability

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Indicators§ Rigidity & Fragility§ Immobility & Opacity§ Needless complexity§ Needless repetition§ …

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What causes design smells?

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Why we focus on smells?

A good designer isone who knows the

design solutions

A GREAT designer isone who understandsthe impact of design

smells and knowshow to address them

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Design Smells as violations of fundamental principles

What do smells indicate?Violations of fundamental design principles

We use Booch’s fundamental principles for classification and naming ofsmells

This helps identify cause of the smell and potential refactoring as well

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Principles used to classify design smells

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Quality attributes impacted by smells

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A principle-based approach to design smells classification

Related Publications

S G Ganesh, Tushar Sharma, Girish Suryanarayana. Towards a Principle-basedClassification of Structural Design Smells. In Journal of Object Technology, vol. 12,no. 2, 2013, pages 1:1–29.doi:10.5381/jot.2013.12.2.a1

URL: http://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2013_06/article1.pdf (open access)

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Summary till now

Design Quality

Technical Debt

Design SmellsWhy care about smells

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Outline

Introduction – Design Quality,Technical Debt, and Design Smells

Design Smells Catalog – Examplesand corresponding Refactoring

The Smell Ecosystem and RepayingTechnical Debt in Practice

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A note on examples in this presentation

We cover only a few examples of each smell category in this presentationLack of time

Most examples are from OpenJDK 7.0 (open source)All illustrations are mostly as UML diagrams so no need to know Java(though you’ll appreciate more if you know Java)

Almost all examples are UML-like diagrams – so agnostic of OO languageSome code examples are in Java, but they are very few

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The principle of abstraction

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Enabling techniques for abstraction

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Incomplete abstraction

This smell arises when a type does not support a responsibilitycompletely

Specifically, the public interface of the type is incomplete in that itdoes not support all behavior needed by objects of its type

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Incomplete abstraction – Example

In this case, the MutableTreeNodesupports only setUserObject but nocorresponding getUserObject (whichis provided in its derived class!)

Hence, MutableTreeNode hasIncomplete Abstraction smell

How to fix it? Provide all thenecessary and relevant methodsrequired for satisfying aresponsibility completely in the classitself

In case of public APIs (as in thiscase), it is often “too late” to fixit!

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Another example

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How to refactor & in future avoid this smell?

For each abstraction (especially in public interface) look out for symmetricalmethods or methods that go together

For example, methods for comparing equality of objects and gettinghash code (in Java/C#)Look out for missing matching methods in symmetrical methods (seetable)

min/max open/close create/destroy get/setread/write print/scan first/last begin/endstart/stop lock/unlock show/hide up/down

source/target insert/delete first/last push/pullenable/disable acquire/release left/right on/off

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Duplicate abstraction

This smell arises when two or more abstractions have identicalnames or identical implementation or both.

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Kinds of clones

• exactly identical except for variations in whitespace, layout, andcomments

Type 1

• syntactically identical except for variation in symbol names,whitespace, layout, and comments

Type 2

• identical except some statements changed, added, or removed

Type 3

• when the fragments are semantically identical but implementedby syntactic variants

Type 4

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public class FormattableFlags {// Explicit instantiation of this class is prohibited.private FormattableFlags() {}/** Left-justifies the output. */public static final int LEFT_JUSTIFY = 1<<0; // '-'/** Converts the output to upper case */public static final int UPPERCASE = 1<<1; // 'S'/**Requires the output to use an alternate form. */public static final int ALTERNATE = 1<<2; // '#'

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public class Dollar {public static final String symbol = “$”;

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Unnecessary abstraction

The smell occurs when an abstraction gets introduced in a softwaredesign which is actually not needed and thus could have been avoided.

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The principle of encapsulation

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Enabling techniques for encapsulation

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Leaky encapsulation

This smell arises when an abstraction “exposes” or “leaks”implementation details through its public interface.

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Refactoring leaky encapsulation smell

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Missing encapsulation

This smell occurs when the encapsulation of implementationvariations in a type or hierarchy is missing.

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Refactoring missing encapsulation smell

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Refactoring missing encapsulation smell

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The principle of modularization

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Enabling techniques for modularization

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Insufficient modularization

This smell arises when an existing abstraction could be furtherdecomposed thereby reducing its interface size, implementationcomplexity or both. Two variants:a) When an abstraction has a large number of members in its interface, itsimplementation, or bothb) When an abstraction has one or more methods with excessive complexity

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Insufficient modularization – Example

The abstract class java.awt.Component isan example of insufficient modularization

It is a massive class with 332 methods(of which 259 are public!)11 nested/inner classes107 fields (including constants)source file spans 10,102 lines ofcode!

The Component serves as a base classand the hierarchy is deep

Derived classes inherit the members=> life is quite difficult!

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Cyclically-dependent modularization

This smell arises when two or more class-level abstractions dependon each other directly or indirectly (creating a tight coupling amongthe abstractions).

(This smell is commonly known as “cyclic dependencies”)

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Refactoring cyclically-dependent modularization

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Refactoring cyclically-dependent modularization

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Refactoring cyclically-dependent modularization

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Refactoring cyclically-dependent modularization

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Refactoring cyclically-dependent modularization

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Refactoring cyclically-dependent modularization

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The principle of hierarchy

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Enabling techniques for hierarchy

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Unfactored hierarchy

This smell arises when the types in a hierarchy share unnecessaryduplication in the hierarchy. Two forms of this smell:

• Duplication in sibling types• Duplication in super and subtypes

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A refactoring for missing intermediate types

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Refactoring for unfactored hierarchy

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Refactoring for unfactored hierarchy

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Broken hierarchy

This smell arises when the base abstraction and its derivedabstraction(s) conceptually do not share “IS-A” relationship(resulting in broken substitutability).

This design smell arises when inheritance is used wrongly instead ofusing composition.

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LSP

It should be possible to replaceobjects of supertype with

objects of subtypes withoutaltering the desired behavior of

the program

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Refactoring broken hierarchy

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Refactoring broken hierarchy

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Unnecessary hierarchy

This smell arises when an inheritance hierarchy has one or more unnecessaryabstractions. Includes the following cases:

• all the subtypes are unnecessary (i.e., inappropriate use of inheritance)• supertype has only one subtype (i.e., speculative generalization)• intermediate types are unnecessary

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Refactoring unnecessary hierarchy

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Refactoring unnecessary hierarchy

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Refactoring unnecessary hierarchy

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Summary till now

Abstraction SmellsIncomplete AbstractionDuplicate AbstractionUnnecessary Abstraction

Encapsulation SmellsLeaky EncapsulationMissing Encapsulation

Modularization SmellsInsufficient ModularizationCyclically-dependent Modularization

Hierarchy SmellsUnfactored HierarchyBroken HierarchyUnnecessary Hierarchy

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Outline

Introduction – Design Quality,Technical Debt, and Design Smells

Design Smells Catalog – Examplesand corresponding Refactoring

The Smell Ecosystem and RepayingTechnical Debt in Practice

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Smell Ecosystem

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DD: Design DecisionDesign

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Role of context in smells and refactoring

Could it be DuplicateAbstraction, Unfactored

Hierarchy, or UnnecessaryAbstraction smell?

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Interplay of Smells: Co-occurring smells

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Interplay of Smells: Amplification

Insufficient Modularizationsmell due to Component

class amplify the impact ofdeep hierarchy negatively.

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Interplay of Smells: Deeper problems

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How to improve design quality in practice?

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Refactoring process model

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What were your key takeaways?

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Our upcoming book on this topic!

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References

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Ganesh Samarthyam

sgganesh@gmail.com

Twitter@GSamarthyam

Girish Suryanarayana

girish.suryanarayana@gmail.com

Twitter@girish_sur

Tushar Sharma

tusharsharma@ieee.org

Twitter@Sharma__Tushar

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