The violation of the semantic and structural software principles, such as low connection, high
coherence, high understanding, and others, are called anti-patterns, which is one of the …

Antipatterns are known to be bad solutions for recurring design problems. To detect and
remove antipatterns has proven to be a useful mean to improve the quality of software. While …

Every symptom in the source code or design of software that violates object-oriented
principles such as maintainability, reusability, and integrity is called an anti-pattern. Poor …

Anti-patterns are poor solutions to design problems that make software systems hard to
understand and extend. Entities involved in anti-patterns are reported to be consistently …

Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter
the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure. Not only researchers …

To automate the refactoring identification process, a large number of candidates need to be
compared. Such an overhead can make the refactoring approach impractical if the software …

Software is frequently refactored to improve its design, either as part of an agile
development process or as part of a major design overhaul. In either case, it is very useful to …

Programmers strive to design programs that are flexible, updateable, and maintainable.
However, several factors such as lack of time, high costs, and workload lead to the creation …

Refactoring a software artifact is an embedded task in the maintenance phase of the
software life cycle. To reduce the time and effort required for this task, researchers proposed …

Context: Refactoring is the art of modifying the design of a system without altering its
behavior. The idea is to reorganize variables, classes and methods to facilitate their future …