Code smell detection is essential to improve software quality, enhancing software
maintainability, and decrease the risk of faults and failures in the software system. In this …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design solutions applied by programmers during the
development of software systems. While the research community devoted a lot of effort to …

Antipatterns are known as poor solutions to recurring problems. For example, Brown et al.
and Fowler define practices concerning poor design or implementation solutions. However …

Software design problems are known and perceived under many different terms such as bad
smells, flaws, non-compliance to design principles, violation of heuristics, excessive metric …

Software systems accumulate technical debt (TD) when short-term goals in software
development are traded for long-term goals (eg, quick-and-dirty implementation to reach a …

Mobile apps are becoming complex software systems that must be developed quickly and
evolve continuously to fit new user requirements and execution contexts. However …

Snippets of logging code are output statements (eg, LOG. info or System. out. println) that
developers insert into a software system. Although more logging code can provide more …

The presence of design flaws in a software system has a negative impact on the quality of
the software, as they indicate violations of design practices and principles, which make a …

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 …

Context. In recent years, smells, also referred to as bad smells, have gained popularity
among developers. However, it is still not clear how harmful they are perceived from the …