Microservices have become a popular architectural style for data-driven applications, given
their ability to functionally decompose an application into small and autonomous services to …

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 …

Code smells are poor implementation choices applied by developers during software
evolution that often lead to critical flaws or failure. Much in the same way, community smells …

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 …

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 …

Software design is an important concern in modern code review through which multiple
developers actively discuss and improve each single code change. However, there is little …

Code smells in a program represent indications of structural quality problems, which can be
addressed by software refactoring. However, refactoring intends to achieve different goals in …

Abstract Architecture erosion (AEr) can adversely affect software development and has
received significant attention in the last decade. However, there is an absence of a …

Code smells, ie, symptoms of poor design and implementation choices applied by
programmers during the development of a software project [2], represent an important factor …

Architecture is the set of principal design decisions about a software system. In practice, new
architectural decisions are added and existing ones reversed or modified throughout a …