Code smells are archetypes of design shortcomings in the code that can potentially cause
problems during maintenance. One known approach for detecting code smells is via …

Code smells are characteristics of the software that may indicate a code or design problem
that can make software hard to evolve and maintain. Detecting and removing code smells …

Code smells are established, widely used characterizations of shortcomings in design and
implementation of software systems. As such, they have been subject to intensive research …

Identifying refactoring opportunities in software systems is an important activity in today's
agile development environments. The concept of code smells has been proposed to …

Code smells refer to commonly occurring patterns in source code that indicate poor
programming practices or code decay. Detecting code smells helps developers find design …

Many tools for code smell detection have been devel-oped, providing often different results.
This is due to the informal definition of code smells and to the subjective interpretation of …

Developers continuously maintain software systems to adapt to new requirements and to fix
bugs. Due to the complexity of maintenance tasks and the time-to-market, developers make …

Several code smells detection tools have been developed providing different results,
because smells can be subjectively interpreted and hence detected in different ways …

The negative impact of smells on the quality of a software systems has been empirical
investigated in several studies. This has recalled the need to have approaches for the …

In this paper, we present TACO (Textual Analysis for Code Smell Detection), a technique
that exploits textual analysis to detect a family of smells of different nature and different …