Bad smells are symptoms that something may be wrong in the system design or code. There
are many bad smells defined in the literature and detecting them is far from trivial. Therefore …

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 …

Context Smells in software systems impair software quality and make them hard to maintain
and evolve. The software engineering community has explored various dimensions …

We investigate the relationship between faults and five of Fowler et al.'s least-studied smells
in code: Data Clumps, Switch Statements, Speculative Generality, Message Chains, and …

Code smells tend to compromise software quality and also demand more effort by
developers to maintain and evolve the application throughout its life-cycle. They have long …

Code smells in a program represent indications of structural quality problems, which can be
addressed by software refactoring. However, refactoring intends to achieve different goals in …

Context: Code smell is a term commonly used to describe potential problems in the design
of software. The concept is well accepted by the software engineering community. However …

Context: Architecture of a software system represents the key design decisions and therefore
its quality plays an important role to keep the software maintainable. Code smells are …

Code smells indicate problems in design or code which makes software hard to change and
maintain. It has become a sign of software systems that cause complications in maintaining …

Code smells represent design situations that can affect the maintenance and evolution of
software. They make the system difficult to evolve. Code smells are detected, in general …