… smells can influence the persistence of code smells, as the circumstances reflected by community
smells … not incur possible additional maintainability and/or reliability problems. Intensity …

… The main contribution of this study is that we determined the factors considered by … [15]
explained that code smells can be used to partly reflect maintainability aspects of software. …

… of code smells on specific aspects of software development extensively. These aspects are
… reflected in source code through groups of code smells and study the impact of a number of …

… , our main findings show that (i) most of the code smells are … In RQ2 we studied tags
related to different aspects of a … which maintainability factors are reflected by code smells and …

… code smells and refactoring have a strong relationship with quality attributes, ie, with
understandability, maintainability, … Responding to RQ4, we analyze which aspects discussed in …

… code elements, as it characterizes the system from the aspect of one metric (from one aspect…
where we introduced the main concepts of refactoring and code smells, and then gave them …

… The sequence in which the code smells are eliminated has a significant aspect in … Our
study aims to improve the maintainability of the software code by identifying the code smell …

… of smells not related to design of source code, such as aspect … (the role of code smells on the
overall system maintainability … (Code smell can help to explain and potentially identify some …

… comings that can negatively impact the maintainability of a … effects of code smells on different
aspects of maintainability, one of … to the code smell, we included a variable reflecting the file …

… aspects of test smells, our empirical knowledge on whether … of code smells, as it can shed
light on why test smells can … tools to detect test smells and compute maintainability metrics, we …