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

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 …

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 …

Context Smells in software systems impair software quality and make them hard to maintain
and evolve. The software engineering community has explored various dimensions …

In past and recent years, the issues related to managing technical debt received significant
attention by researchers from both industry and academia. There are several factors that …

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 …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices that may hinder
code comprehension, and possibly increase changeand fault-proneness. While most of the …

Smart contracts are programs running on a blockchain. They are immutable to change, and
hence can not be patched for bugs once deployed. Thus it is critical to ensure they are bug …

Code smells represent symptoms of poor implementation choices. Previous studies found
that these smells make source code more difficult to maintain, possibly also increasing its …

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 …