Code smell causes side effects in the source code and impact the code quality. It is
beneficial to recognize code smells to improve software quality. Despite 22 classical code …

Code smell is a characteristic of the source code which indicates some serious problem in
the code which might affect the quality of the source code. There exists a list of 22 code …

Abstract Context: Although Code Smell can't cause problems with execution of project code,
Code Smell can cause some potential problems of maintainability and understandability on …

In recent years, many studies on detecting code smells in source code have published
datasets with limited characteristics, such as the ambiguity of code smell definitions leads to …

Code smells are symptoms of design shortcomings in source code. There are various tools
and approaches have been proposed for detecting code smells. A systematic review …

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 …

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 …

The accurate removal of code smells from source code supports activities such as
refactoring, maintenance, examining code quality etc. A large number of techniques and …

Over the past 15 years, researchers presented numerous techniques and tools for mining
code smells. It is imperative to classify, compare, and evaluate existing techniques and tools …

In software development, a code smell is some surface indication that possibly corresponds
to a deeper problem in the programme. Whether a piece of code has a code smell or not is …