Context Bad smells negatively impact software quality metrics such as understandability,
reusability, and maintainability. Reduced costs and enhanced software quality can be …

The accuracy reported for code smell-detecting tools varies depending on the dataset used
to evaluate the tools. Our survey of 45 existing datasets reveals that the adequacy of a …

The technological advent in smart sensing devices and the Internet has provided practical
solutions in various sectors of networking, public and private sector industries, and …

Code smells refers to any symptoms or anomalies in the source code that shows violation of
design principles or implementation. Early detection of bad code smells improves software …

Abstract VANET (Vehicle Ad-hoc Network) is an emerging technology in today's intelligent
transport system. In VANET, there are many moving nodes which are called the vehicle …

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 …

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 smells are poor implementation choices that developers apply while evolving source
code and that affect program maintainability. Multiple automated code smell detectors have …

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

Purpose The relationship between the various existing smell taxonomies and the smell
impacting factors has been established. The ideology is to identify the most critical smell …