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 …

Context: Architecture of a software system represents the key design decisions and therefore
its quality plays an important role to keep the software maintainable. Code smells are …

Code smells indicate possible flaws in software design, that could negatively affect system's
maintainability. Interactions among smells located in the same classes (ie, collocated …

To reduce loss from software defects, in the past decades, a number of software engineering
researchers have proposed many software defect prediction techniques, which mainly focus …

Architecture anti-patterns violate design principles and negatively impact software internal
quality. Both academia and industry have designed methods and tools to detect anti …

Code smells are considered to have negative impacts on software evolution and
maintenance. Many researchers have conducted studies to investigate these effects and …

Code smells may degrade code quality owing to the unnoticed introduction of side effects.
Various approaches for identifying code smells have been developed since the term “code …

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 …