Code smells are indicators of issues with source code quality that may hinder evolution.
While previous studies mainly focused on the effects of individual code smells on …

Code smells are manifestations of design flaws that can degrade code maintainability. As
such, the existence of code smells seems an ideal indicator for maintainability assessments …

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 represent symptoms of poor implementation choices. Previous studies found
that these smells make source code more difficult to maintain, possibly also increasing its …

Empirical studies have shown so far that code smells have relatively low impact over
maintenance effort at file level. We surmise that previous studies have found low effects of …

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 …

The existence of code bad smell has a severe impact on the software quality. Numerous
researches show that ignoring code bad smells can lead to failure of a software system …

This work presents the results of an initial empirical study on the subjective evaluation of bad
code smells, which identify poor structures in software. Based on a case study in a Finnish …

Context Code smells are indicators of poor coding and design choices that can cause
problems during software maintenance and evolution. Objective This study is aimed at a …

Context Code smells are suboptimal design or implementation choices made by
programmers during the development of a software system that possibly lead to low code …