Test cases are crucial to help developers preventing the introduction of software faults.
Unfortunately, not all the tests are properly designed or can effectively capture faults in …

Understanding program code is a complicated endeavor. As a result, studying code
comprehension is also hard. The prevailing approach for such studies is to use controlled …

Code smells are indicators of deeper design problems that may cause difficulties in the
evolution of a software system. This paper investigates the capability of twelve code smells …

Many important applications are organized around long-lived, irregular sparse graphs (eg,
data and knowledge bases, CAD optimization, numerical problems, simulations). The graph …

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 …

This paper investigates how developers discuss code smells and anti-patterns over Stack
Overflow to understand better their perceptions and understanding of these two concepts …

Code smell is an indication of a software designing problem. The presence of code smells
can have a severe impact on the software quality. Smells basically refers to the structure of …

The regular expression (regex) is a powerful tool employed in a large variety of software
engineering tasks. However, prior work has shown that regexes can be very complex and …

Nowadays, modern applications are developed using components written in different
programming languages and technologies. The cost benefits of reuse and the advantages of …