This document discusses code smells and refactoring. It defines code smells as structures in code that violate design principles and negatively impact quality. Refactoring is restructuring code without changing external behavior. Several types of code smells are described, such as long methods, long parameter lists, duplicate code, and switch statements. For each smell, symptoms and potential remedies like extracting methods or replacing conditionals with polymorphism are provided. The document emphasizes that most of a software's lifecycle is spent on maintenance, so reducing code smells through refactoring is important.