Keyword

code smells

Description: Code smells are recognizable patterns in source code that may indicate design weaknesses or deeper software maintenance problems.

Primary topic: Software Engineering Research (84%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q2295111

OpenAlex ID: keywords/code-smells

DECOR: A Method for the Specification and Detection of Code and Design Smells

2009 · N. Moha, Y.-G. Gueheneuc, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 803

A Survey on Software Clone Detection Research

2007 · Chanchal K. Roy, James R. Cordy · 731

Refactoring to Patterns

2004 · Joshua Kerievsky · Lecture notes in computer science · 423

Clean Code : A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

2008 · Robert Martin · 419

xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code

2007 · Gerard Meszaros · 395

Java quality assurance by detecting code smells

2003 · E. van Emden, L. Moonen · Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering · 379

Quantifying the Effect of Code Smells on Maintenance Effort

2013 · Dag I.K. Sjoberg, Aiko Yamashita, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 316

An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Code Smells on Software Change-proneness

2009 · Foutse Khomh, Massimiliano Di Penta, et al. · Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering · 311

On the diffuseness and the impact on maintainability of code smells: a large scale empirical investigation

2017 · Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, et al. · Empirical Software Engineering · 307

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Detecting code smells using machine learning techniques: Are we there yet?

2018 · Dario Di Nucci, Fabio Palomba, et al. · IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) · 304

Why we refactor? confessions of GitHub contributors

2016 · Danilo Silva, Nikolaos Tsantalis, et al. · ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) · 288

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Metrics based refactoring

2002 · F. Simon, F. Steinbruckner, et al. · Proceedings of the ... European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering/Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering · 288

Detecting object usage anomalies

2007 · Andrzej Wasylkowski, Andreas Zeller, et al. · 273

Mining Version Histories for Detecting Code Smells

2014 · Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 258

Do They Really Smell Bad? A Study on Developers' Perception of Bad Code Smells

2014 · Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, et al. · IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME) · 257

When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad

2015 · Michele Tufano, Fabio Palomba, et al. · Proceedings/Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering · 253

Code smells and refactoring: A tertiary systematic review of challenges and observations

2020 · Guilherme Lacerda, Fabio Petrillo, et al. · Journal of Systems and Software · 250

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A survey on software smells

2017 · Tushar Sharma, Diomidis Spinellis · Journal of Systems and Software · 250

The evolution and impact of code smells: A case study of two open source systems

2009 · Steffen Olbrich, Daniela S. Cruzes, et al. · Proceedings of the ... ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement/International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement · 247

Detecting bad smells in source code using change history information

2013 · Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, et al. · IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) · 241

Are all code smells harmful? A study of God Classes and Brain Classes in the evolution of three open source systems

2010 · Steffen M. Olbrich, Daniela S. Cruzes, et al. · Proceedings/Proceedings - Conference on Software Maintenance · 239

When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad (and Whether the Smells Go Away)

2017 · Michele Tufano, Fabio Palomba, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 236

An experimental investigation on the innate relationship between quality and refactoring

2015 · Gabriele Bavota, Andrea De Lucia, et al. · Journal of Systems and Software · 232

Do developers care about code smells? An exploratory survey

2013 · Aiko Yamashita, Leon Moonen · Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering · 230

Exploring the impact of inter-smell relations on software maintainability: An empirical study

2013 · Aiko Yamashita, Leon Moonen · Proceedings/Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering · 229

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Citation count: 33,810