Bad smells are sub-optimal code structures that may represent problems needing attention.
We conduct an extensive literature review on bad smells relying on a large body of …

Software systems nowadays are complex and difficult to maintain due to continuous
changes and bad design choices. To handle the complexity of systems, software products …

This survey reviews published materials related to the specific area of Search-Based
Software Engineering that concerns software maintenance and, in particular, refactoring …

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 …

We propose in this paper to consider code-smells detection as a distributed optimization
problem. The idea is that different methods are combined in parallel during the optimization …

Successful software products evolve through a process of continual change. However, this
process may weaken the design of the software and make it unnecessarily complex, leading …

We propose a novel recommendation tool for software refactoring that dynamically adapts
and suggests refactorings to developers interactively based on their feedback and …

With millions of smartphones sold every year, the development of mobile apps has grown
substantially. The battery power limitation of mobile devices has push developers and …

There is a growing need for scalable search-based software engineering approaches that
address software engineering problems where a large number of objectives are to be …

Code smells represent design situations that can affect the maintenance and evolution of
software. They make the system difficult to evolve. Code smells are detected, in general …