Context: Technical debt (TD) refers to non-optimal decisions made in software projects that
may lead to short-term benefits, but potentially harm the system's maintenance in the long …

In the world of microservices, companies must be able to create systems that operate in the
most efficient way. To achieve this, anti-patterns must be avoided because of their detriment …

The advancements in machine learning techniques have encouraged researchers to apply
these techniques to a myriad of software engineering tasks that use source code analysis …

Context Smells in software systems impair software quality and make them hard to maintain
and evolve. The software engineering community has explored various dimensions …

Context: An excessive number of code smells make a software system hard to evolve and
maintain. Machine learning methods, in addition to metric-based and heuristic-based …

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of specifying computing system configurations
through code, and managing them through traditional software engineering methods. The …

Software design is an important concern in modern code review through which multiple
developers actively discuss and improve each single code change. However, there is little …

Visual esthetics is recognized as an essential factor of perceived usability, credibility, and
overall quality of software systems user interfaces. Thus, it is crucial to assess this factor as …

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on assisting
humans in programming and facilitating programming automation. However, existing …

Context: Architecture of a software system represents the key design decisions and therefore
its quality plays an important role to keep the software maintainable. Code smells are …