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 …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices. Previous studies
empirically assessed the impact of smells on code quality and clearly indicate their negative …

Code smells tend to compromise software quality and also demand more effort by
developers to maintain and evolve the application throughout its life-cycle. They have long …

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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 …

Mobile apps are becoming complex software systems that must be developed quickly and
evolve continuously to fit new user requirements and execution contexts. However …

Code smells refer to any symptom in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a
deeper problem, hindering software maintenance and evolution. Detection of code smells is …

Context. In recent years, smells, also referred to as bad smells, have gained popularity
among developers. However, it is still not clear how harmful they are perceived from the …

Code smells are indicators of potential problems in software. They tend to have a negative
impact on software quality. Several studies use machine learning techniques to detect bad …

Context Code smells are suboptimal design or implementation choices made by
programmers during the development of a software system that possibly lead to low code …