Code smells are structural characteristics of software that may indicate a code or design
problem that makes software hard to evolve and maintain, and may trigger refactoring of …

Context Reusing a design pattern is not always in the favor of developers. Thus, the code
starts smelling. The presence of “Code Smells” leads to more difficulties for the developers …

The detection of design patterns is a useful activity giving support to the comprehension and
maintenance of software systems. Many approaches and tools have been proposed in the …

Detecting code smells in the code and consequently applying the right refactoring steps
when necessary is very important to improve the quality of the code. Different tools have …

Different forms of technical debt exist that have to be carefully managed. In this paper we
focus our attention on design debt, represented by code smells. We consider three smells …

Nowadays, software designers attempt to employ design patterns in software design phase,
but design patterns may be not used in the implementation phase. Therefore, one of the …

Abstract Design patterns are formalized best practices that address concerns related to high-
level structures for applications being developed. The efficient recovery of design pattern …

Design patterns are elegant and well-tested solutions to recurrent software development
problems. They are the result of software developers dealing with problems that frequently …

Knowledge about design pattern (DP) instances improves program comprehension and
reengineering of object‐oriented systems. Effectively, it helps to discover developer design …

Software design patterns are abstract descriptions of best practice solutions for recurring
design problems. The information about which design pattern is implemented where in a …