Code smells instigate due to the consistent adoption of bad programming and
implementation styles during the evolution of the software which adversely affects the …

Code smells are poor code design or implementation that affect the code maintenance
process and reduce the software quality. Therefore, code smell detection is important in …

Code Smells are structural characteristics of software that indicate design problems that lead
to less maintainable code. It can be seen as symptom of underlying problems like defects …

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 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 …

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 …

We examine a machine learning approach for detecting common Class and Method level
code smells (Data Class and God Class, Feature Envy and Long Method). The focus of the …

Purpose: Code smells are residuals of technical debt induced by the developers. They
hinder evolution, adaptability and maintenance of the software. Meanwhile, they are very …

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

Python is an increasingly popular programming language used in various software projects
and domains. Code smells in Python significantly influences the maintainability …