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 are anomalies often generated in design, implementation or maintenance
phase of software development life cycle. Researchers established several catalogues …

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 …

Background: Code smells are symptoms that something may be wrong in software systems
that can cause complications in maintaining software quality. In literature, there exist many …

Code smells represent design situations that can affect the maintenance and evolution of
software. They make the system difficult to evolve. Code smells are detected, in general …

Context A code smell indicates a poor implementation choice that often worsens software
quality. Thus, code smell detection is an elementary technique to identify refactoring …

Background: Code smells indicate suboptimal design or implementation choices in the
source code that often lead it to be more change-and fault-prone. Researchers defined …

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 …

Code smells or bad smells are an accepted approach to identify design flaws in the source
code. Although it has been explored by researchers, the interpretation of programmers is …

Code smells are poor code design or implementation that affect the code maintenance
process and reduce the software quality. Therefore, code smell detection is important in …