The accuracy reported for code smell-detecting tools varies depending on the dataset used
to evaluate the tools. Our survey of 45 existing datasets reveals that the adequacy of a …

Background: Code refactoring is widely recognized as an essential software engineering
practice to improve the understandability and maintainability of the source code. The Extract …

Context: Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance, and is usually performed to
enforce better design and coding practices, while co** with design defects. The Extract …

Refactoring is a maintenance task that aims at enhancing the quality of a software's source
code by restructuring it without affecting the external behavior. Move method refactoring …

Code smells indicate poor design and imperfection in coding style. They increase
maintenance costs and degrade software quality. Detecting and mitigating these code …

Method naming is a critical factor in program comprehension, affecting software quality.
State-of-the-art naming techniques use deep learning to compute the methods' similarity …

Test-first development (TFD) is a software development approach involving automated tests
before writing the actual code. TFD offers many benefits, such as improving code quality …

In complex systems, the maintenance phase engenders the emergence of code smells due
to incessant shifts in requirements and designs, stringent timelines, and the developer's …

This study explores the characteristics of data clumps, a specific type of code smells, in
software projects. Code smells are characteristics in source code which indicate a deeper …

We developed a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA called AntiCopyPaster, which tracks the pasting of
code fragments inside the IDE and suggests the appropriate Extract Method refactoring to …