While onboarding an open source software (OSS) project, contributors face many different
barriers that hinder their contribution, leading in many cases to dropouts. Many projects …

Detecting code smells and treating them with refactoring are trivial part of maintaining vast
and sophisticated software. There is an urgent need for automatic system to treat code …

Regression testing is the activity performed by developers to check whether new
modifications have not introduced bugs. A crucial requirement to make regression testing …

Background: Code smells are symptoms that something may be wrong in software systems
that can cause complications in maintaining software quality. In literature, there exist many …

Purpose: Code smells are residuals of technical debt induced by the developers. They
hinder evolution, adaptability and maintenance of the software. Meanwhile, they are very …

The detection of code smells is a fundamental prerequisite for guiding the subsequent steps
in the refactoring process. The more the detection results are accurate, the more the …

Context: Code smells are associated to poor design and programming style, which often
degrades code quality and hampers code comprehensibility and maintainability. Goal …

The existence of code bad smell has a severe impact on the software quality. Numerous
researches show that ignoring code bad smells can lead to failure of a software system …

Anti-patterns are poor solutions to recurring design problems. Number of empirical studies
have highlighted the negative impact of anti-patterns on software maintenance which …

Context A code smell indicates a poor implementation choice that often worsens software
quality. Thus, code smell detection is an elementary technique to identify refactoring …