Wind power has become one of the most popular sources of renewable energy, and various
countries have increased their use of wind turbines because of turbines' rapid and relatively …

Bad smells are sub-optimal code structures that may represent problems needing attention.
We conduct an extensive literature review on bad smells relying on a large body of …

Code review is the process of having other team members examine changes to a software
system in order to evaluate its technical content and quality. A lightweight variant of this …

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 …

Maintaining large and complex software is a significant task in IT industry. One reason for
that is the development of code smells which are design flaws that lead to future bugs and …

The accuracy reported for code smell-detecting tools varies depending on the dataset used
to evaluate the tools. Our survey of 45 existing datasets reveals that the adequacy of a …

Software refactoring is widely employed to improve software quality. A key step in software
refactoring is to identify which part of the software should be refactored. To facilitate the …

Context: Code smell detection is the process of identifying code pieces that are poorly
designed and implemented. Recently more research has been directed towards machine …

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 …

This paper presents a novel bio-inspired algorithm called Sandpiper Optimization Algorithm
(SOA) and applies it to solve challenging real-life problems. The main inspiration behind this …