Code smells are structural characteristics of software that may indicate a code or design
problem that makes software hard to evolve and maintain, and may trigger refactoring of …

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 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 …

Code smells are a well-known metaphor to describe symptoms of code decay or other
issues with code quality which can lead to a variety of maintenance problems. Even though …

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 …

Several code smell detection tools have been developed providing different results,
because smells can be subjectively interpreted, and hence detected, in different ways. In this …

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 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 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 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 …