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 …

With modern requirements, there is an increasing tendency of considering multiple
objectives/criteria simultaneously in many Software Engineering (SE) scenarios. Such a …

Blockchains have been booming in recent years. As a decentralized system architecture,
smart contracts give blockchains a user-defined logic. A smart contract is an executable …

Software systems nowadays are complex and difficult to maintain due to continuous
changes and bad design choices. To handle the complexity of systems, software products …

One of the most widely used techniques to improve the quality of existing software systems
is refactoring—the process of improving the design of existing code by changing its internal …

Modern software development builds on external Web services reuse as a promising way
that allows developers delivering feature-rich software by composing existing Web service …

We propose in this paper to consider code-smells detection as a distributed optimization
problem. The idea is that different methods are combined in parallel during the optimization …

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is widely used in industry and is regarded as one of the
preferred architectural design technologies. As with any other software system, service …

Successful software products evolve through a process of continual change. However, this
process may weaken the design of the software and make it unnecessarily complex, leading …

We propose a novel recommendation tool for software refactoring that dynamically adapts
and suggests refactorings to developers interactively based on their feedback and …