Software testing is a key activity to control the reliability of production code. Unfortunately,
the effectiveness of test cases can be threatened by the presence of faults. Recent work …

Test smells are sub-optimal design choices in the implementation of test code. As reported
by recent studies, their presence might not only negatively affect the comprehension of test …

Similarly to production code, code smells also occur in test code, where they are called test
smells. Test smells have a detrimental effect not only on test code but also on the production …

Test smells have been defined as poorly designed tests and, as reported by recent empirical
studies, their presence may negatively affect comprehension and maintenance of test suites …

Test smells are poor design decisions implemented in test code, which can have an impact
on the effectiveness and maintainability of unit tests. Even though test smell detection tools …

The test code, just like production source code, is subject to bad design and programming
practices, also known as smells. The presence of test smells in a software project may affect …

Test smells are defined as sub-optimal design choices developers make when
implementing test cases. Hence, similar to code smells, the research community has …

In this paper, we present TACO (Textual Analysis for Code Smell Detection), a technique
that exploits textual analysis to detect a family of smells of different nature and different …

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 …

Test smells attempt to capture design issues in test code that reduce their maintainability.
Previous work found such smells to be highly common in automatically generated test …