The challenge of effective refactoring in the software development cycle brought forward the
need to develop automated defect prediction models. Among many existing indicators of …

Quantum computing is a rapidly growing field attracting the interest of both researchers and
software developers. Supported by its numerous open-source tools, developers can now …

Purpose: Code smells are residuals of technical debt induced by the developers. They
hinder evolution, adaptability and maintenance of the software. Meanwhile, they are very …

Code smell indicates inadequacies in design and implementation choices. Code smells
harm software maintainability including effects on components' bug proneness and code …

The main aim of software fault prediction is the identification of such classes and methods
where faults are expecting at an early stage using some properties of the project. Early …

An enduring engineering problem is the creation of unreliable software leading to unreliable
systems. One reason for this is source code is written in a complicated manner making it too …

Software maintenance phase involves successive code changes due to the reported bugs
causing the emergence of bad smells in the code. Gradual code deterioration is the result of …

The increasing demands and excessive use of computers and applications worldwide
makes it challenging for the application and software developers to deliver the product on …

Code smells are the structural characteristics of the software under development that
indicate poor code choices and can cause errors or failures in the software and they can …

The presence of code smells in a software project is a strong indication of its low quality in
the context of its implementation, and in many cases, these same code smells can be …