Context Reusing a design pattern is not always in the favor of developers. Thus, the code
starts smelling. The presence of “Code Smells” leads to more difficulties for the developers …

Refactoring and smells have been well researched by the software-engineering research
community these past decades. Several secondary studies have been published on code …

Software design problems are known and perceived under many different terms, such as
code smells, flaws, non-compliance to design principles, violation of heuristics, excessive …

Refactoring is a technique to make a computer program more readable and maintainable. A
bad smell is an indication of some setback in the code, which requires refactoring to deal …

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 …

There is growing empirical evidence that some (patterns of) code smells seem to be, either
deliberately or not, ignored. More importantly, there is little knowledge about the factors that …

Context Code bad smells indicate design flaws that can degrade the quality of software and
can potentially lead to the introduction of faults. They can be eradicated by applying …

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, ie, symptoms of poor design and implementation choices applied by
programmers during the development of a software project [2], represent an important factor …

Code smells in a program represent indications of structural quality problems, which can be
addressed by software refactoring. However, refactoring intends to achieve different goals in …