Where can we see the definition of code smell severity levels?

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Hi,

I’m struggling to find out the definition for code smell severity levels. Therefore we don’t know the difference between Critical code smells and Major code smells. Can you please advise? Thanks.

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Hey there.

Check out this documetnation

Code Smell

  • Impact: Could the Code Smell lead a maintainer to introduce a bug?
  • Likelihood: What is the probability the worst will happen?

Once you have your impact and likelihood assessments, the rest is easy:

impact likelihood
Blocker Y Y
Critical Y N
Major N Y
Minor N N
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This is exactly what I’m looking for (did try but failed to find out). Thank you so much for sharing Colin.

Regards,
Cuong.