Code smells are considered symptoms of poor implementation choices, which may hamper
the software maintainability. Hence, code smells should be detected as early as possible to …

Goal models play a significant role in the early stages of the requirements engineering
process. These models are subject to quality problems (aka, bad smells) that may …

Goal-oriented modeling languages have been proposed to elicit, analyze, and document
high-level system requirements in the early stages of the requirements engineering (RE) …

Code smells indicate poor implementation choices that may hinder program comprehension
and maintenance. Their informal definition allows developers to follow different heuristics to …

Code smells are structures in code that present potential software maintainability issues.
Manually constructing high-quality datasets to train ML models for code smell detection is …

The author hereby declares that this dissertation has not been submitted, either in the same
or in a different form, to this or to any other university for obtaining a PhD degree. The author …

Context: The identification of code smells is one of the most subjective tasks in software
engineering. A key reason is the influence of collective aspects of communities working on …

Anomalias de código conhecidas como bad smells indicam estruturas em código que
podem prejudicar a compreensão e manutenção de programas. A ausência de uma …