Code smells indicate design issues that violate basic design principles such as hierarchy
encapsulation, abstraction, and others, potentially affecting software quality [1],[2]. Detecting …

Code smell detection can be very useful for minimizing maintenance costs and improving
software quality. Code smells help developers/programmers, researchers to subjectively …

Maintaining large and complex software is a significant task in IT industry. One reason for
that is the development of code smells which are design flaws that lead to future bugs and …

Code smell aims to identify bugs that occurred during software development. It is the task of
identifying design problems. The significant causes of code smell are complexity in code …

Accepted: 12/May/2019, Published: 31/May/2019 Abstract—Code smells identified by
Fowler [1] is as symptoms of possible code or design problems. Code smells have adverse …

Code smell targets to identify bugs that occur due to incorrect analysis of code during
software development life cycle. It is the task of analyzing a code design problem. The …

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 …

Code smell refers to any symptom introduced in design or implementation phases in the
source code of a program. Such a code smell can potentially cause deeper and serious …

Code smells, also known as code bad smells, are" a surface indication that usually
corresponds to a deeper problem in the system"[12]. Introduced by Fowler in 1999 [11] …

Several code smells detection tools have been developed providing different results,
because smells can be subjectively interpreted and hence detected in different ways …