Code smells indicate problems in design or code which makes software hard to change and
maintain. It has become a sign of software systems that cause complications in maintaining …

Context: Code smells are assumed to indicate bad design that leads to less maintainable
code. However, this assumption has not been investigated in controlled studies with …

Antipatterns are poor design choices that are conjectured to make object-oriented systems
harder to maintain. We investigate the impact of antipatterns on classes in object-oriented …

Antipatterns are" poor" solutions to recurring design problems which are conjectured in the
literature to make object-oriented systems harder to maintain. However, little quantitative …

Code smells are manifestations of design flaws that can degrade code maintainability. As
such, the existence of code smells seems an ideal indicator for maintainability assessments …

Code smells are indicators of issues with source code quality that may hinder evolution.
While previous studies mainly focused on the effects of individual code smells on …

One of the most widely used techniques to improve the quality of existing software systems
is refactoring—the process of improving the design of existing code by changing its internal …

Bad code smells have been defined as indicators of potential problems in source code.
Techniques to identify and mitigate bad code smells have been proposed and studied …

Code smells are particular patterns in object-oriented systems that are perceived to lead to
difficulties in the maintenance of such systems. It is held that to improve maintainability, code …

Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability
issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolution of …