Background: Code smells are indicators of quality problems that make a software hard to
maintain and evolve. Given the importance of smells in the source code's maintainability …

Background: Defining code smell is not a trivial task. Their recognition tends to be highly
subjective. Nevertheless some code smells detection tools have been proposed. Other …

Background: Software smells reflect the sub-optimal patterns in the software. In a similar
way, community smells consider the sub-optimal patterns in the organizational and social …

Refactoring is a widely used technique that removes the flaws of the system and improves its
quality. It is often practiced to change the inner framework of the code while preserving its …

User requirements for a software system frequently evolve with time, and developers
sometimes make incorrect implementation choices while meeting such requirements. These …

Bad smells are certain flaws in the structure of the code that might not disturb the normal
functioning of a program but negatively affects the software quality. Developers use …

Effectively staffing a software development team for a software project is important to the
development of software in the project. Performance of software developers can be …

When system components become more coupled over time, more effort must be dedicated
to software architecture refactoring. Tightly coupled components present higher risk—they …

Bad smell can be defined as structures in code that suggest the possibility of refactoring. In
object-oriented languages such as C# and Java, Bad Smells are heavily exploited as a way …