Refactoring and smells have been well researched by the software-engineering research
community these past decades. Several secondary studies have been published on code …

Bad smells are symptoms that something may be wrong in the system design or code. There
are many bad smells defined in the literature and detecting them is far from trivial. Therefore …

Background: Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance and is generally
performed to enforce the best design and implementation practices or to cope with design …

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

Software refactoring has been recognized as a valuable process during software
development and is often aimed at repaying technical debt. Technical debt arises when a …

With the rapid development of deep learning, the implementation of intricate algorithms and
substantial data processing have become standard elements of deep learning projects. As a …

Design and code smells are characteristics in the software source code that might indicate a
deeper design problem. Code smells can lead to costly maintenance and quality problems …

Context Software maintenance is expensive and so anything that can be done to reduce its
cost is potentially of huge benefit. However, it is recognised that some maintenance …

Refactoring is a critical but complex process to improve code quality by altering software
structure without changing the observable behavior. Search-based approaches have been …

In this paper, a new approach is proposed for automated software maintenance. The tool is
able to perform 26 different refactorings. It also contains a large selection of metrics to …