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

Architectural smells can negatively impact on different software qualities and can represent
a relevant source of architectural debt. Several architectural smells have been defined by …

Poor design quality and huge technical debt are common issues perceived in real-life
software projects. Design smells are indicators of poor design quality and the volume of …

Design problems affect every software system. Diverse software systems have been
discontinued or reengineered due to design problems. As design documentation is often …

Architecture is the set of principal design decisions about a software system. In practice, new
architectural decisions are added and existing ones reversed or modified throughout a …

High data quality is fundamental for today's AI-based systems. However, although data
quality has been an object of research for decades, there is a clear lack of research on …

Background. Architectural smells and code smells are symptoms of bad code or design that
can cause different quality problems, such as faults, technical debt, or difficulties with …

The phenomenon of architecture erosion can negatively impact the maintenance and
evolution of software systems, and manifest in a variety of symptoms during software …

Software defect prediction involves predicting which components in a software program, like
classes or functions, are likely to have defects, based on metrics that describe those …

In this study, we describe a system-level multiple refactoring algorithm, which can identify
the move method, move field, and extract class refactoring opportunities automatically …