Do bad smells indicate trouble in code?

Min Zhang, Tracy Hall, Nathan Baddoo, Paul Wernick. Do bad smells indicate trouble in code?. In Premkumar T. Devanbu, Brendan Murphy, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, editors, Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on Defects in Large Software Systems, held in conjunction with the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2008), DEFECTS 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 20, 2008. pages 43-44, ACM, 2008. [doi]

@inproceedings{ZhangHBW08,
  title = {Do bad smells indicate  trouble  in code?},
  author = {Min Zhang and Tracy Hall and Nathan Baddoo and Paul Wernick},
  year = {2008},
  doi = {10.1145/1390817.1390831},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1390817.1390831},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/ZhangHBW08},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {43-44},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on Defects in Large Software Systems, held in conjunction with the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2008), DEFECTS 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 20, 2008},
  editor = {Premkumar T. Devanbu and Brendan Murphy and Nachiappan Nagappan and Thomas Zimmermann},
  publisher = {ACM},
  isbn = {978-1-60558-051-7},
}