Context Code smells are patterns in source code associated with an increased defect rate
and a higher maintenance effort than usual, but without a clear definition. Code smells are …

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 …

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

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 …

Context: Code smells are symptoms of wrong design decisions or coding shortcuts that may
increase defect rate and decrease maintainability. Research on code smells is accelerating …

Code smells can compromise software quality in the long term by inducing technical debt.
For this reason, many approaches aimed at identifying these design flaws have been …

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

Background: Code smells indicate suboptimal design or implementation choices in the
source code that often lead it to be more change-and fault-prone. Researchers defined …

Code smells represent a well-known problem in software engineering, since they are a
notorious cause of loss of comprehensibility and maintainability. The most recent efforts in …

Code smells, also known as code bad smells, are" a surface indication that usually
corresponds to a deeper problem in the system"[12]. Introduced by Fowler in 1999 [11] …