Code smells indicate problems in design or code which makes software hard to change and
maintain. It has become a sign of software systems that cause complications in maintaining …

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

This systematic literature review paper investigates the key techniques employed to identify
smells in different paradigms of software engineering from object‐oriented (OO) to service …

When identifying the origin of software bugs, many studies assume that “a bug was
introduced by the lines of code that were modified to fix it”. However, this assumption does …

Code smells indicate software design problems that harm software quality. Data-intensive
systems that frequently access databases often suffer from SQL code smells besides the …

The quality of method names is critical for the readability and maintainability of source code.
However, it is often challenging to construct concise method names. To alleviate this …

Linguistic anti-patterns are recurring poor practices concerning inconsistencies in the
naming, documentation, and implementation of an entity. They impede the readability …

Background: Code smells are indicators of quality problems that make a software hard to
maintain and evolve. Given the importance of smells in the source code's maintainability …

Software development has become a fundamental process on any business or organization.
As a consequence, together with other emergent technologies, new development platforms …

Context Reading and understanding the source code are fundamental to supporting
software programmers' daily activities. Still, there is no agreement regarding the program …