A large empirical assessment of the role of data balancing in machine-learning-based code smell detection

F Pecorelli, D Di Nucci, C De Roover… - Journal of Systems and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Code smells can compromise software quality in the long term by inducing technical debt.
For this reason, many approaches aimed at identifying these design flaws have been …

On the role of data balancing for machine learning-based code smell detection

F Pecorelli, D Di Nucci, C De Roover… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Code smells can compromise software quality in the long term by inducing technical debt.
For this reason, many approaches aimed at identifying these design flaws have been …

Machine learning techniques for code smell detection: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis

MI Azeem, F Palomba, L Shi, Q Wang - Information and Software …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background: Code smells indicate suboptimal design or implementation choices in the
source code that often lead it to be more change-and fault-prone. Researchers defined …

A review on machine-learning based code smell detection techniques in object-oriented software system (s)

A Kaur, S Jain, S Goel, G Dhiman - Recent Advances in …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Code smells are symptoms that something may be wrong in software systems
that can cause complications in maintaining software quality. In literature, there exist many …

On the relative value of imbalanced learning for code smell detection

F Li, K Zou, JW Keung, X Yu, S Feng… - Software: Practice and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Machine learning‐based code smell detection (CSD) has been demonstrated to be a
valuable approach for improving software quality and enabling developers to identify …

Detecting code smells using machine learning techniques: Are we there yet?

D Di Nucci, F Palomba, DA Tamburri… - 2018 ieee 25th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Code smell detection based on supervised learning models: A survey

Y Zhang, C Ge, H Liu, K Zheng - Neurocomputing, 2024 - Elsevier
Supervised learning-based code smell detection has become one of the dominant
approaches to identify code smell. Existing works optimize the process of code smell …

Comparing and experimenting machine learning techniques for code smell detection

F Arcelli Fontana, MV Mäntylä, M Zanoni… - Empirical Software …, 2016 - Springer
Several code smell detection tools have been developed providing different results,
because smells can be subjectively interpreted, and hence detected, in different ways. In this …

Code smell detection by deep direct-learning and transfer-learning

T Sharma, V Efstathiou, P Louridas… - Journal of Systems and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Context: An excessive number of code smells make a software system hard to evolve and
maintain. Machine learning methods, in addition to metric-based and heuristic-based …

Are you smelling it? Investigating how similar developers detect code smells

M Hozano, A Garcia, B Fonseca, E Costa - Information and Software …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …