In the last decade several catalogues have been defined to characterize bad code smells,
ie, symptoms of poor design and implementation choices. On top of such catalogues …

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

Code-smells are identified, in general, by using a set of detection rules. These rules are
manually defined to identify the key symptoms that characterize a code-smell using …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices that may hinder
code comprehension and possibly increase change-and fault-proneness of source code …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices weighing heavily on
the quality of produced source code. During the last decades several code smell detection …

Context Research on code smells accelerates and there are many studies that discuss them
in the machine learning context. However, while data sets used by researchers vary in …

Code and design smells are poor solutions to recurring implementation and design
problems. They may hinder the evolution of a system by making it hard for software …

Code smells were defined as symptoms of poor design choices applied by programmers
during the development of a software project [2]. They might hinder the comprehensibility …

Identifying refactoring opportunities in software systems is an important activity in today's
agile development environments. The concept of code smells has been proposed to …

This study also compares the results of the smell survey to the source code metrics collected
with automatic tools. The results show that developers' evaluations of the bad code smells …