Is the word “Helper” in a class name a code smell?

Question

We seems to be abstracting a lot of logic way from web pages and creating \"helper\" classes. Sadly, these classes are all sounding the same, e.g

ADHelper, (Active D

Answer 1

Depends on the actual content of the classes.

If a huge amount of actual business logic/business rules are in the helper classes, then I would say yes.

If the classes are really just helpers that can be used in other enterprise applications (re-use in the absolute sense of the word -- not copy then customize), then I would say the helpers aren't a code smell.