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

Many code smell detection techniques and tools have been proposed, mainly aiming to
eliminate design flaws and improve software quality. Most of them are based on heuristics …

Context: Code smell detection is the process of identifying code pieces that are poorly
designed and implemented. Recently more research has been directed towards machine …

Code smells are structures in the source code that suggest the possibility of refactorings.
Consequently, developers may identify refactoring opportunities by detecting code smells …

To maintain software and enhance its code quality, code smell, ie, undesired design flaws
need to be detected. However, as the system size increases, manual smell detection …

Maintaining large and complex software is a significant task in IT industry. One reason for
that is the development of code smells which are design flaws that lead to future bugs and …

Code smells combine software features that indicate a code or design-related problem that
can increase the difficulty of the software and make it complicated to recognize, develop …

Background: Code smells indicate suboptimal design or implementation choices in the
source code that often lead it to be more change-and fault-prone. Researchers defined …

Several approaches are proposed to detect code smells. A set of important approaches are
based on machine learning algorithms, which require the code smells have been labeled in …

Code-Smells refer to design situations that may adversely affect the maintenance of
software. They make a system difficult to change, which may in turn introduce bugs. Code …