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 are poor implementation choices applied by developers during software
evolution that often lead to critical flaws or failure. Much in the same way, community smells …

Code smells represent poor implementation choices performed by developers when
enhancing source code. Their negative impact on source code maintainability and …

Developing green and sustainable software has become a prominent topic in research over
the last years. While approaches are being constantly researched and developed to …

Software engineers make use of design patterns for reasons that range from performance to
code comprehensibility. Several design patterns capturing the body of knowledge of best …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design solutions applied by programmers during the
development of software systems. While the research community devoted a lot of effort to …

Background: Sustainable software engineering (SSE) means creating software in a way that
meets present needs without undermining our collective capacity to meet our future needs. It …

Improving the energy efficiency of mobile applications is a timely goal, as it can contribute to
increase a device's usage time, which most often is powered by batteries. Recent studies …

An essential activity of software maintenance is the refactoring of source code. Refactoring
operations enable developers to take necessary actions to correct bad programming …

Mobile applications must continuously evolve, sometimes under such time pressure that
poor design or implementation choices are made, which inevitably result in structural …