Smart contract, a term which was originally coined to refer to the automation of legal
contracts in general, has recently seen much interest due to the advent of blockchain …

Abstract Design, development, and other projects inevitably involve iteration. Iteration has
positive effects, such as enabling progressive generation of knowledge, enabling …

Responsible artificial intelligence guidelines ask engineers to consider how their systems
might harm. However, contemporary artificial intelligence systems are built by composing …

Software engineering practitioners often spend significant amount of time and effort to
debug. To help practitioners perform this crucial task, hundreds of papers have proposed …

Refactoring is a widespread practice that helps developers to improve the maintainability
and readability of their code. However, there is a limited number of studies empirically …

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 …

One of the most widely used techniques to improve the quality of existing software systems
is refactoring—the process of improving the design of existing code by changing its internal …

Code smells are poor implementation choices applied by developers during software
evolution that often lead to critical flaws or failure. Much in the same way, community smells …

An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is performed by
developers, regardless of technology or domain, to improve the internal quality of the …

Refactoring is the art of improving the structural design of a software system without altering
its external behavior. Today, refactoring has become a well-established and disciplined …