The document discusses various code smells related to abstraction, encapsulation, and modularization in software design. It identifies specific issues such as missing or unnecessary abstractions, insufficient encapsulation, and problematic inheritance hierarchies that can complicate the design and implementation of software systems. The authors are Girish Suryanarayana, Ganesh Samarthyam, and Tushar Sharma, and the document was published by Morgan Kaufmann in October 2014.