The accuracy reported for code smell-detecting tools varies depending on the dataset used
to evaluate the tools. Our survey of 45 existing datasets reveals that the adequacy of a …

Code smells indicate poor design and imperfection in coding style. They increase
maintenance costs and degrade software quality. Detecting and mitigating these code …

Method naming is a critical factor in program comprehension, affecting software quality.
State-of-the-art naming techniques use deep learning to compute the methods' similarity …

Context: Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance, and is usually performed to
enforce better design and coding practices, while coping with design defects. The Extract …

Background: Refactoring is changing a software system without affecting the software
functionality. The current researchers aim i to identify the appropriate method (s) or class (s) …

We developed a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA called AntiCopyPaster, which tracks the pasting of
code fragments inside the IDE and suggests the appropriate Extract Method refactoring to …

Refactoring is a maintenance task that aims at enhancing the quality of a software's source
code by restructuring it without affecting the external behavior. Move method refactoring …

The responsibility of a method/function is to perform some desired computations and
disseminate the results to its caller through various deliverables, including object fields and …

Context: Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance, and is usually performed to
enforce better design and coding practices, while coping with design defects. The Extract …

Long Method is a code smell that frequently happens in software development, which refers
to the complex method with multiple functions. Detecting and refactoring such problems has …