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 …

Empirical research is playing a significant role in software engineering (SE), and it has been
applied to evaluate software artifacts and technologies. There have been a great number of …

Online code clones are code fragments that are copied from software projects or online
sources to Stack Overflow as examples. Due to an absence of a checking mechanism after …

There have been a great many methods and tools proposed for software clone detection.
While some work has been done on assessing and comparing performance of these tools …

JavaScript has been a de facto standard language for client-side web programs, and now it
is expanding its territory to general purpose programs. In this article, we classify the client …

Modern websites heavily rely on JavaScript (JS) to implement legitimate functionality as well
as privacy-invasive advertising and tracking. Browser extensions such as NoScript block any …

JavaScript is often rated as the most popular programming language for the development of
both client-side and server-side applications, and is currently used in almost all websites …

JavaScript is often rated as the most popular programming language for the development of
both client-side and server-side applications. Because of its popularity, JavaScript has …

Now that HTML5 technologies are everywhere from web services to various platforms,
assuring quality of web applications becomes very important. While web application …

The diversity of programming languages is growing, making the language extensibility of
code clone detectors crucial. However, this is challenging for most existing clone detection …