Abstract Design Smells are indicators of situations that negatively affect software quality
attributes such as understandability, testability, extensibility, reusability, and maintainability …

Context: Design smell detection has proven to be a significant activity that has an aim of not
only enhancing the software quality but also increasing its life cycle. Objective: This work …

Software quality is critical, as low quality, or “Code smell,” increases technical debt and
maintenance costs. There is a timely need for a collaborative model that detects and …

Abstract Design smell detection has proven to be an efficient strategy to improve software
quality and consequently decrease maintainability expenses. This work explores the …

Abstract Context: Design smell Prioritization is a significant activity that tunes the process of
software quality enhancement and raises its life cycle. Objective: A multi-criteria merge …

Context: Design smell detection is considered an efficient activity that decreases
maintainability expenses and improves software quality. Human context plays an essential …

The quality of software systems may be seriously impacted by specific types of source code
anomalies. For example, poor programming practices result in Code Smells (CSs), which …

Repairing code smells detected in the code or design of the system is one of the activities
contributing to increasing the software quality. In this study, we investigate the impact of non …

Design smell detection is one of the essential activities for improving software quality.
Mainly, detecting the co-occurrence of design smells contributes to reducing future …

The automatic detection of Design Smells has evolved in parallel to the evolution of
automatic refactoring tools. There was a huge rise in research activity regarding Design …