Over the past 15 years, researchers presented numerous techniques and tools for mining
code smells. It is imperative to classify, compare, and evaluate existing techniques and tools …

Code smells tend to compromise software quality and also demand more effort by
developers to maintain and evolve the application throughout its life-cycle. They have long …

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

Placement of attributes/methods within classes in an object-oriented system is usually
guided by conceptual criteria and aided by appropriate metrics. Moving state and behavior …

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 …

Evolutionary changes in object-oriented systems can result in large, complex classes,
known as" God Classes". In this paper, we present a tool, developed as part of the …

Code smells refer to any symptom in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a
deeper problem, hindering software maintenance and evolution. Detection of code smells is …

Code smells can be used to capture symptoms of code decay and potential maintenance
problems that can be avoided by applying the right refactoring. They can be seen as a …

Abstract Design Smells are indicators of situations that negatively affect software quality
attributes such as understandability, testability, extensibility, reusability, and maintainability …

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 …