Code smells are structural characteristics of software that may indicate a code or design
problem that makes software hard to evolve and maintain, and may trigger refactoring of …

Antipatterns are poor design choices that are conjectured to make object-oriented systems
harder to maintain. We investigate the impact of antipatterns on classes in object-oriented …

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 …

Tough time-to-market constraints and unanticipated integration or evolution issues lead to
design tradeoffs that usually cause flaws in the structure of a software system. Thus …

An anti-pattern is a commonly occurring solution to a recurring problem that will typically
negatively impact code quality. Code smells are considered to be symptoms of anti-patterns …

As software systems are maintained, their architecture modularity often degrades through
architectural erosion and drift. More directly, however, the modularity of software …

The longevity of evolving software systems largely depends on their resilience to
architectural design degradation. It is often assumed that code anomalies are always key …

In the service-oriented paradigm web service interfaces are considered contracts between
web service subscribers and providers. However, these interfaces are continuously evolving …

Antipatterns are poor solutions to design and implementation problems which are claimed to
make object oriented systems hard to maintain. Our recent studies showed that classes with …

Eradication of code smells is often pointed out as a way to improve readability, extensibility
and design in existing software. However, code smell detection in large systems remains …