The recognition of the need for high-quality software architecture is evident from the
increasing trend in investigating architectural smells. Detection of architectural smells is …

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 …

It is widely believed that refactoring improves software quality and developer productivity.
However, few empirical studies quantitatively assess refactoring benefits or investigate …

An interview study involving 35 practitioners from a variety of domains aimed to characterize
technical debt at the ground level to find out how software practitioners perceive it. The study …

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of specifying computing system configurations
through code, and managing them through traditional software engineering methods. The …

Software evolves with continuous source-code changes. These code changes usually need
to be understood by software engineers when performing their daily development and …

Code smells are a popular mechanism to find structural design problems in software
systems. Consequently, several tools have emerged to support the detection of code smells …

In this paper, we propose and empirically validate a suite of hotspot patterns: recurring
architecture problems that occur in most complex systems and incur high maintenance …

Software systems accumulate technical debt (TD) when short-term goals in software
development are traded for long-term goals (eg, quick-and-dirty implementation to reach a …

Design problems affect every software system. Diverse software systems have been
discontinued or reengineered due to design problems. As design documentation is often …