Code smells are symptoms in the source code that indicate possible deeper problems andmay serve as drivers for code refactoring. Although effort has been made on identifying divergent changes and shotgun surgeries, little emphasis has been put on predicting the volume of co-changing code that appears in the code smells. More specifically, when a software developer intends to perform a particula...

Code review plays an important role in software quality control. A typical process involves a careful check of piece code attempt to detect and locate defects other issues/violations. One type issue that may impact the is smells - i.e., bad coding practices lead or maintenance issues. Yet, little known about extent which are identified during modern review. To investigate concept behind what ac...

Building on the computer science concept of code smells, we initiate study law i.e., patterns in legal texts that pose threats to comprehensibility and maintainability law. With five intuitive smells as running examples — namely, duplicated phrase, long element, large reference tree, ambiguous syntax, natural language obsession develop a comprehensive smell taxonomy. This taxonomy classifies by...

Abstract Building on the computer science concept of code smells , we initiate study law i.e., patterns in legal texts that pose threats to comprehensibility and maintainability law. With five intuitive as running examples—namely, duplicated phrase, long element, large reference tree, ambiguous syntax, natural language obsession—, develop a comprehensive smell taxonomy. This taxonomy classifies...

This literature focuses on improving the internal structure of the Distributed Modular Audio recognition Framework (DMARF) and the General Intensional Programming System (GIPSY) case studies without affecting their original behavior. At first, the general principles, and the working of DMARF and GIPSY are understood by mainly stressing on the architecture of the systems by looking at their fram...

Context: Bad requirements quality can cause expensive consequences during the software development lifecycle, especially if iterations are long and feedback comes late. Objectives: We aim at a light-weight static requirements analysis approach that allows for rapid checks immediately when requirements are written down. Method: We transfer the concept of code smells to Requirements Engineering a...

Refactoring activities should be carefully planned in advance for different reasons: i) they can be expensive in terms of resources needed; ii) refactoring is highly requested when clones, code smells or other potential problems reach a given threshold; and iii) such activities should be performed when the evolution of the software system is in a stable period. This work proposes to apply time ...