Do Software Code Smell Checkers Smell Themselves?: A Self Reflection

Interesting! For those of who might skip reading the source -- The authors ran various code quality tools on the source of the code quality tools themselves. The results were not great.

> These tools display a number of code smells despite the fact that their main goal is to help developers get rid of the extra effort needed to find code smells. Therefore, these implements could be perceived as having questionable quality, and as a result, inadequate trustworthiness. > > Nevertheless, all of the detection tools did have an accuracy-rate of at least 50%, with three out of the total seven tools exhibiting an accuracy-rate as high as 70% according to our tests.