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

It is an interesting point, if a word becomes 'boilerplate' in names then its probably a bit whiffy - if not quite a real smell. Perhaps using a 'Helper' folder and then allowing it to appear in the namespace keeps its use without overusing the word?

Application.Helper.SharePoint
Application.Helper.Authentication

and so on