IntroductionCode smells indicate possible design problems. Cleaning up bad smells is a continual battle. Ambient Smell alerts developers of possible bad smells through light weight visualizations and allow for a quick way of performing a code review.

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Target SystemsAmbient Smell is intended to run on the following systems:

CruiseControl TRAC Eclipse Visual Studio 2003 Visual Studio 2005 Ambient Office ArchitectureThe system is composed of two main modules. A code smell scanner, and a code smell viewer.

View GeneratorThe view generator renders bad smell candidates visualized in a svg file and information on location and metrics values in a xml file.

Environment =(Code Info)=> Scanner =(Smell Candidates)=> View Generator => (Visualization, SmellMetaInfo)

ViewerThe viewer displays the svg file and responds to click events to display the appropriate location in the environment.