There is a growing need for scalable search-based software engineering approaches that
address software engineering problems where a large number of objectives are to be …

Microservice Architecture (MSA) is becoming the predominant direction of new cloud-based
applications. There are many advantages to using microservices, but also downsides to …

Code smells represent design situations that can affect the maintenance and evolution of
software. They make the system difficult to evolve. Code smells are detected, in general …

Context Software refactoring aims to improve software quality and developer productivity.
Numerous empirical studies investigating the impact of refactoring activities on software …

In double patterning lithography (DPL) layout decomposition for 45nm and below process
nodes, two features must be assigned opposite colors (corresponding to different …

Refactoring large systems involves several sources of uncertainty related to the severity
levels of code smells to be corrected and the importance of the classes in which the smells …

Long Method is amongst the most common code smells in software systems. Despite
various attempts to detect the long method code smell, few automated approaches are …

Anti-patterns and code smells are archetypes used for describing software design
shortcomings that can negatively affect software quality, in particular maintainability. Tools …

Context Code smells are manifestations of design flaws that can degrade code
maintainability. So far, no research has investigated if these indicators are useful for …

As Deep learning (DL) systems continuously evolve and grow, assuring their quality
becomes an important yet challenging task. Compared to non-DL systems, DL systems have …