Refactoring and smells have been well researched by the software-engineering research community these past decades. Several secondary studies have been published on code …
Code smells were defined as symptoms of poor design choices applied by programmers during the development of a software project [2]. They might hinder the comprehensibility …
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 Smells in software systems impair software quality and make them hard to maintain and evolve. The software engineering community has explored various dimensions …
In past and recent years, the issues related to managing technical debt received significant attention by researchers from both industry and academia. There are several factors that …
Technical debt is a metaphor introduced by Cunningham to indicate “not quite right code which we postpone making it right”. One noticeable symptom of technical debt is …
Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices that may hinder code comprehension, and possibly increase changeand fault-proneness. While most of the …
In the last decade several catalogues have been defined to characterize bad code smells, ie, symptoms of poor design and implementation choices. On top of such catalogues …
Code smells represent symptoms of poor implementation choices. Previous studies found that these smells make source code more difficult to maintain, possibly also increasing its …