To assist maintenance and evolution teams, work needs to be done at the onset of software
development. One such facilitation is refactoring the code, making it easier to read …

In order to improve software maintainability, possible improvement efforts must be made
measurable. One such effort is refactoring the code which makes the code easier to read …

Bad Smells are certain structures in the software which violates the design principles and
ruin the software quality. In order to deals with the bad smells, often refactoring treatment is …

Bad smells are bad practices in developing software. These poor solutions significantly
influence the understandability and maintainability of source code. Therefore, bad smell …

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 …

Frequent changes in an object-oriented software system often result into a poor-quality and
less maintainable design and the symptoms (known as Code Smells) causing that …

Bad Smells define in an informal way code flaws, in order to suggest refactorings, their aim
is to improve the design of the code. Current taxonomies group code smells, making use of …

Several studies are focused on the study of code smells and many detection techniques
have been proposed. In this scenario, the use of rules involving software-metrics has been …

Bad smells are signs of potential problems in code. Detecting bad smells, however, remains
time consuming for software engineers despite proposals on bad smell detection and …

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