Context: Code smells are assumed to indicate bad design that leads to less maintainable
code. However, this assumption has not been investigated in controlled studies with …

Context Code smells are indicators of poor coding and design choices that can cause
problems during software maintenance and evolution. Objective This study is aimed at a …

Empirical studies have shown so far that code smells have relatively low impact over
maintenance effort at file level. We surmise that previous studies have found low effects of …

Code smells were defined as symptoms of poor design choices applied by programmers
during the development of a software project [2]. They might hinder the comprehensibility …

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 …

Technical debt is a metaphor introduced by Cunningham to indicate “not quite right code
which we postpone making it right”. One noticeable symptom of technical debt is …

Fowler et al. identified 22 Code Bad Smells to direct the effective refactoring of code. These
are increasingly being taken up by software engineers. However, the empirical basis of …

Code smells are manifestations of design flaws that can degrade code maintainability. As
such, the existence of code smells seems an ideal indicator for maintainability assessments …

Code smells are indicators of issues with source code quality that may hinder evolution.
While previous studies mainly focused on the effects of individual code smells on …

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 …