Code smell is a software characteristic that indicates bad symptoms in code design which
causes problems related to software quality. The severity of code smells must be measured …

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

Code smell detection is essential to improve software quality, enhancing software
maintainability, and decrease the risk of faults and failures in the software system. In this …

Code smells or bad smells are an accepted approach to identify design flaws in the source
code. Although it has been explored by researchers, the interpretation of programmers is …

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

Code smells are indications of design issues in software. The importance of early detection
of these indicators helps in improving the maintenance process and raising the efficiency of …

Defect prediction is commonly used to reduce the effort from the testing phase of software
development. A promising strategy is to use machine learning techniques to predict which …

Code smells are poor implementation choices applied during software evolution that can
affect source code maintainability. While several heuristic-based approaches have been …

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 smells indicate poor implementation choices that may hinder the system maintenance.
Their detection is important for the software quality improvement, but studies suggest that it …