In recent years there has been a noticeable shift in attention from those who use agile
software development toward lean software development, often labelled as a shift “from …

An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is performed by
developers, regardless of technology or domain, to improve the internal quality of the …

Nowadays, bugs have been common in most software systems. For large-scale software
projects, developers usually conduct software maintenance tasks by utilizing software …

Context: In this paper, we investigate how developers discuss code smells and anti-patterns
across three technical Stack Exchange sites. Understanding developers perceptions of …

Most modern software products incorporate open source components, which requires
compliance with each component's licenses. As noncompliance can lead to significant …

Code review plays an important role in software quality control. A typical review process
would involve a careful check of a piece of code in an attempt to find defects and other …

Background: Q&A sites allow to study how users reference and request support on technical
debt. To date only few studies, focusing on narrow aspects, investigate technical debt on …

Architecture Smells (ASs) are design decisions that can have significant negative effects on
a system's quality attributes such as reusability and testability. ASs are focused on higher …

Code review plays an important role in software quality control. A typical review process
involves a careful check of a piece of code in an attempt to detect and locate defects and …

Apache Spark is one of the most popular big data frameworks that abstract the underlying
distributed computation details. However, even though Spark provides various abstractions …