Context: Code smells are sub-optimal design choices that could lower software
maintainability. Objective: Previous literature did not consider an important characteristic of …

Detailed measurements and analyses for the Linux-2.4 TCP stack on current adapters and
processors are presented. We describe the impact of CPU scaling and memory bus loading …

Software testing represents a key software engineering practice to ensure source code
quality and reliability. To support developers in this activity and reduce testing effort, several …

Refactoring is recognized as an essential practice in the context of evolutionary and agile
software development. Recognizing the importance of the practice, modern IDEs provide …

Code-smells are identified, in general, by using a set of detection rules. These rules are
manually defined to identify the key symptoms that characterize a code-smell using …

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 …

Anti-patterns are poor solutions to recurring design problems. Several empirical studies
have highlighted their negative impact on program comprehension, maintainability, as well …

Code smells are sub-optimal implementation choices applied by developers that have the
effect of negatively impacting, among others, the change-proneness of the affected classes …

" God class" is a term used to describe a certain type of large classes which" know too much
or do too much". Often a God class (GC) is created by accident as functionalities are …

Bad smells are symptoms of bad design choices implemented on the source code. They are
one of the key indicators of technical debts, specifically, design debt. To manage this kind of …