Code smells indicate design issues that violate basic design principles such as hierarchy
encapsulation, abstraction, and others, potentially affecting software quality [1],[2]. Detecting …

Background: Defining code smell is not a trivial task. Their recognition tends to be highly
subjective. Nevertheless some code smells detection tools have been proposed. Other …

Code smells are structures in code that often harm its quality. Manually detecting code
smells is challenging, so researchers proposed many automatic detectors. Traditional code …

Over the past 15 years, researchers presented numerous techniques and tools for mining
code smells. It is imperative to classify, compare, and evaluate existing techniques and tools …

Code smell is the structural design defect that makes programs difficult to understand,
maintain, and evolve. Existing works of code smell detection mainly focus on prevalent code …

Code smells instigate due to the consistent adoption of bad programming and
implementation styles during the evolution of the software which adversely affects the …

Code smells refer to any symptom in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a
deeper problem, hindering software maintenance and evolution. Detection of code smells is …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices weighing heavily on
the quality of produced source code. During the last decades several code smell detection …

Context A code smell indicates a poor implementation choice that often worsens software
quality. Thus, code smell detection is an elementary technique to identify refactoring …

Software maintenance is an essential part of any software that finds its use in the day-to-day
activities of any organization. During the maintenance phase bugs detected must be …