Over the past 15 years, researchers presented numerous techniques and tools for mining
code smells. It is imperative to classify, compare, and evaluate existing techniques and tools …

Researchers have provided various techniques and tools in the past few years for
identification of code smells. Due to their changing outcomes and features, the classification …

Background: Various works investigated microservice anti-patterns and bad smells in the
past few years. We identified seven secondary publications that summarize these, but they …

Code smells are a well-known metaphor to describe symptoms of code decay or other
issues with code quality which can lead to a variety of maintenance problems. Even though …

Code smells are indicators of issues with source code quality that may hinder evolution.
While previous studies mainly focused on the effects of individual code smells on …

In order to support the maintenance of object-oriented software systems, the quality of their
design must be evaluated using adequate quantification means. In spite of the current …

Tough time-to-market constraints and unanticipated integration or evolution issues lead to
design tradeoffs that usually cause flaws in the structure of a software system. Thus …

This book has been a much longer process than I would have ever anticipated. The original
idea was to integrate and combine the research on software product quality control with my …

Refactoring can have a direct influence on reducing the cost of software maintenance
through changing the internal structure of the source-code to improve the overall design that …

Context Software quality models provide either abstract quality characteristics or concrete
quality measurements; there is no seamless integration of these two aspects. Quality …