Code smells as system-level indicators of maintainability: An empirical study
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Code smells as system-level indicators of maintainability: An empirical study
Code smells are manifestations of design flaws that can degrade code maintainability if left to fester. The research in this paper investigates the potential of code smells to reflect system-level indicators of maintainability. We report a study where the strengths and limitations of code smells are evaluated against existing evaluation approaches. We evaluated four medium-sized Java systems us...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Systems and Software
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0164-1212
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.05.007