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 smells indicate design or code issues that might degrade the evolution and
maintenance of software systems. Detecting and identifying these issues are challenging …

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

Context: Design smell detection has proven to be a significant activity that has an aim of not
only enhancing the software quality but also increasing its life cycle. Objective: This work …

In current, typical software development projects, hundreds of developers work
asynchronously in space and time and may introduce anti-patterns in their software systems …

Context: Architecture of a software system represents the key design decisions and therefore
its quality plays an important role to keep the software maintainable. Code smells are …

Developers may introduce anti-patterns in their software systems because of time pressure,
lack of understanding, communication, and--or skills. Anti-patterns impede development and …

Abstract Model-driven engineering, an emerging trend in software engineering, has enabled
the use of refactoring to UML models. Numerous approaches to model refactoring, problem …

Context Code bad smells indicate design flaws that can degrade the quality of software and
can potentially lead to the introduction of faults. They can be eradicated by applying …

Developers usually leverage Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) to abstract complex
database accesses for large-scale systems. However, since ORM frameworks operate at a …