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Test Smell Detection improves your manual test cases. The automatic detection of test smells helps making your test suite easy to understand and easy to maintain. In addition, the automatic detection also leads to consistent reproducible test results. The best way to find test smells is our Qualicen Scout. Scout can detect test smells in textual test descriptions automatically. Configured once, it immediately shows where you can improve your test descriptions. What kind of improvements you ask? Well, there is a wide variety of so called "Test Smells" Scout can automatically detect! Test smells are words, phrases, or language constructs that are not good for your test quality.  For example, ...

• ambiguous phrases in your test descriptions (a threat to reproducible test results).
• sentences/paragraphs that are difficult to comprehend (prevents that your colleagues ask: "eh, what?")
• tests having multiple flows (shouldn’t a test focus on just one case?).
• steps that have been copied between test cases (super annoying to keep in sync when things change).
• and many more ...