Code smell detection is essential to improve software quality, enhancing software
maintainability, and decrease the risk of faults and failures in the software system. In this …

Context. In recent years, smells, also referred to as bad smells, have gained popularity
among developers. However, it is still not clear how harmful they are perceived from the …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices, which might hinder
comprehension, increase code complexity and fault-proneness and decrease …

Variability is an inherent property of software systems to create families of products dealing
with needs of different customers and environments. However, some practices to manage …

Context: Most modern software systems exist in different variants to address a variety of
requirements, such as customer requests, regulations, or hardware restrictions. To benefit …

Companies are often forced to customize their software products. Thus, a common practice
is to clone and adapt existing systems to new customer requirements. With the extractive …

Code smells are established, widely used characterizations of shortcomings in design and
implementation of software systems. As such, they have been subject to intensive research …

Existing object detection pipelines can show superior performance for large objects with
high resolution but fail to detect very small objects such as traffic signs. So, detecting traffic …

Software product lines enable developers to derive similar products from a common code
base. Existing implementation techniques can be categorized as composition‐based and …

A software product line (SPL) is a set of systems that share common and varying features. To
provide large-scale reuse, the components of a SPL should be easy to maintain. Therefore …