Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices weighing heavily on
the quality of produced source code. During the last decades several code smell detection …

Bad smells are sub-optimal code structures that may represent problems needing attention.
We conduct an extensive literature review on bad smells relying on a large body 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 …

Several code smell detection tools have been developed providing different results,
because smells can be subjectively interpreted, and hence detected, in different ways. In this …

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

Context: An excessive number of code smells make a software system hard to evolve and
maintain. Machine learning methods, in addition to metric-based and heuristic-based …

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 …

In the last decade several catalogues have been defined to characterize bad code smells,
ie, symptoms of poor design and implementation choices. On top of such catalogues …

Code smells are structures in the source code that suggest the possibility of refactorings.
Consequently, developers may identify refactoring opportunities by detecting code smells …