Context: Code smell is a term commonly used to describe potential problems in the design
of software. The concept is well accepted by the software engineering community. However …

Software smells indicate design or code issues that might degrade the evolution and
maintenance of software systems. Detecting and identifying these issues are challenging …

Code and design smells are poor solutions to recurring implementation and design
problems. They may hinder the evolution of a system by making it hard for software …

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 poor implementation choices, thought to make object-oriented systems
hard to maintain. In this study, we investigate if classes with code smells are more change …

One of the most widely used techniques to improve the quality of existing software systems
is refactoring—the process of improving the design of existing code by changing its internal …

The presence of code and design smells can have a severe impact on the quality of a
program. Consequently, their detection and correction have drawn the attention of both …

The presence of antipatterns can have a negative impact on the quality of a program.
Consequently, their efficient detection has drawn the attention of both researchers and …

Software is usually complex and always intangible. In practice, the development and
maintenance processes are time-consuming activities mainly because software complexity …

Software defects often lead to bugs, runtime errors and software maintenance difficulties.
They should be systematically prevented, found, removed or fixed all along the software …