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 …

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 …

Previous studies have investigated the reasons behind refactoring operations performed by
developers, and proposed methods and tools to recommend refactorings based on quality …

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 …

Despite the importance of software metrics and the large number of proposed metrics, they
have not been widely applied in industry yet. One reason might be that, for most metrics, the …

In this paper, we present TACO (Textual Analysis for Code Smell Detection), a technique
that exploits textual analysis to detect a family of smells of different nature and different …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices. Previous studies
empirically assessed the impact of smells on code quality and clearly indicate their negative …

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 …

We propose in this paper to consider code-smells detection as a distributed optimization
problem. The idea is that different methods are combined in parallel during the optimization …