Revisiting Code Smell Severity Prioritization using learning to rank techniques

L Liu, G Lin, L Zhu, Z Yang, P Song, X Wang… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Code Smell Severity Prioritization (CSSP) is crucial in helping software developers
minimize software maintenance costs and enhance software quality, particularly when faced …

Severity classification of code smells using machine-learning methods

S Dewangan, RS Rao, SR Chowdhuri, M Gupta - SN Computer Science, 2023 - Springer
Code smell detection can be very useful for minimizing maintenance costs and improving
software quality. Code smells help developers/programmers, researchers to subjectively …

Improving machine learning-based code smell detection via hyper-parameter optimization

L Shen, W Liu, X Chen, Q Gu… - 2020 27th Asia-Pacific …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unlike code errors, the presence of code smell often does not affect the behavior of the
software system, but it will cause quality problems in terms of readability, understandability …

Revisiting" code smell severity classification using machine learning techniques"

W Hu, L Liu, P Yang, K Zou, J Li, G Lin… - 2023 IEEE 47th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the context of limited maintenance resources, predicting the severity of code smells is
more practically useful than simply detecting them. Fontana et al. first empirically …

On the relative value of imbalanced learning for code smell detection

F Li, K Zou, JW Keung, X Yu, S Feng… - Software: Practice and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Machine learning‐based code smell detection (CSD) has been demonstrated to be a
valuable approach for improving software quality and enabling developers to identify …

Voting heterogeneous ensemble for code smell detection

H Aljamaan - 2021 20th IEEE international conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Code smells are poor design and implementation choices that hinders the overall software
quality. Code smells detection using machine learning models has been an active research …

A study of dealing class imbalance problem with machine learning methods for code smell severity detection using PCA-based feature selection technique

RS Rao, S Dewangan, A Mishra, M Gupta - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Detecting code smells may be highly helpful for reducing maintenance costs and raising
source code quality. Code smells facilitate developers or researchers to understand several …

SSHM: SMOTE-stacked hybrid model for improving severity classification of code smell

J Nanda, JK Chhabra - International Journal of Information Technology, 2022 - Springer
Code Smells are structural characteristics of software that indicate design problems that lead
to less maintainable code. It can be seen as symptom of underlying problems like defects …

On the effectiveness of developer features in code smell prioritization: A replication study

Z Huang, H Yu, G Fan, Z Shao, Z Zhou, M Li - Journal of Systems and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Code smells are sub-optimal design and implementation choices that hinder software
maintainability. Although significant progress has been achieved in code smell detection …

Improving Code Smell Detection by Reducing Dimensionality Using Ensemble Feature Selection and Machine Learning

A Nandini, R Singh, A Rathee - SN Computer Science, 2024 - Springer
Code smells negatively impact software maintenance and several mitigation tools and/or
techniques have been devised in the past. However, their interpretation is subjective and …