Refactoring is the process of changing the internal structure of software to improve its quality
without modifying its external behavior. Empirical studies have repeatedly shown that …

The recognition of the need for high-quality software architecture is evident from the
increasing trend in investigating architectural smells. Detection of architectural smells is …

The use of automatic static analysis tools (ASATs) has gained increasing attention in the last
few years. Even though available research have already explored ASATs issues and how …

Code smells can compromise software quality in the long term by inducing technical debt.
For this reason, many approaches aimed at identifying these design flaws have been …

Links are an essential feature of the World Wide Web, and source code repositories are no
exception. However, despite their many undisputed benefits, links can suffer from decay …

Supervised learning-based code smell detection has become one of the dominant
approaches to identify code smell. Existing works optimize the process of code smell …

A linter is a static analysis tool that warns software developers about possible code errors or
violations to coding standards. By using such a tool, errors can be surfaced early in the …

Abstract Context: Facebook's React is a widely popular JavaScript library to build rich and
interactive user interfaces (UI). However, due to the complexity of modern Web UIs, React …

Code smells indicate software design problems that harm software quality. Data-intensive
systems that frequently access databases often suffer from SQL code smells besides the …

Context: Companies frequently invest effort to remove technical issues believed to impact
software qualities, such as removing anti-patterns or coding styles violations. Objective: We …