Bad code smells have been defined as indicators of potential problems in source code.
Techniques to identify and mitigate bad code smells have been proposed and studied …

As a type of anti-pattern, test smells are defined as poorly designed tests and their presence
may negatively affect the quality of test suites and production code. Test smells are the …

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

Context: Code smells are associated to poor design and programming style, which often
degrades code quality and hampers code comprehensibility and maintainability. Goal …

In recent years, researchers and practitioners have been studying the impact of test smells
on test maintenance. However, there is still limited empirical evidence on why developers …

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 …

Test smells aim to capture design issues in test code that reduces its maintainability. These
have been extensively studied and generally found quite prevalent in both human-written …

This study also compares the results of the smell survey to the source code metrics collected
with automatic tools. The results show that developers' evaluations of the bad code smells …

Unit testing represents a key activity in software development and maintenance. Test suites
with high internal quality facilitate maintenance activities, such as code comprehension and …

Fowler et al. identified 22 Code Bad Smells to direct the effective refactoring of code. These
are increasingly being taken up by software engineers. However, the empirical basis of …