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

Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Fausto Fasano, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia

PDFDOI 10.1145/3180155.3182532dblp

Abstract

Code smells were defined as symptoms of poor design choices applied by programmers during the development of a software project [2]. They might hinder the comprehensibility and maintainability of software systems [5]. Similarly to some previous work [3, 4, 6, 7] in this paper we investigate the relationship between the presence of code smells and the software change- and fault-proneness. Specifically, while previous work shows a significant correlation between smells and code change/fault-proneness, the empirical evidence provided so far is still limited because of:

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Palomba-al:ICSE18,
  author    = {Fabio Palomba and
               Gabriele Bavota and
               Massimiliano Di Penta and
               Fausto Fasano and
               Rocco Oliveto and
               Andrea De Lucia},
  title     = {On the diffuseness and the impact on maintainability of code smells: a large scale empirical investigation},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {482},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2018},
}

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