Background Assessing and communicating software engineering research can be
challenging. Design science is recognized as an appropriate research paradigm for applied …

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 …

Computational notebooks combine code, visualizations, and text in a single document.
Researchers, data analysts, and even journalists are rapidly adopting this new medium. We …

Code smells were defined as symptoms of poor design choices applied by programmers
during the development of a software project [2]. They might hinder the comprehensibility …

Technical debt is a metaphor introduced by Cunningham to indicate “not quite right code
which we postpone making it right”. One noticeable symptom of technical debt is …

As a type of anti-pattern, test smells are defined as poorly designed tests and their presence
may negatively affect the quality of test suites and production code. Test smells are the …

Technical debt is a metaphor introduced by Cunningham to indicate" not quite right code
which we postpone making it right". Examples of technical debt are code smells and bug …

Test smells have been defined as poorly designed tests and, as reported by recent empirical
studies, their presence may negatively affect comprehension and maintenance of test suites …

Context. The demand for green software design is steadily growing higher especially in the
context of mobile devices, where the computation is often limited by battery life. Previous …

Online code clones are code fragments that are copied from software projects or online
sources to Stack Overflow as examples. Due to an absence of a checking mechanism after …