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The scent of a smell: an extensive comparison between textual and structural smells

Fabio Palomba, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Rocco Oliveto, Andrea De Lucia

PDFDOI 10.1145/3180155.3182530dblp

Abstract

Code smells, i.e., symptoms of poor design and implementation choices applied by programmers during the development of a software project [2], represent an important factor contributing to technical debt [3]. The research community spent a lot of effort studying the extent to which code smells tend to remain in a software project for long periods of time [9], as well as their negative impact on non-functional properties of source code [4, 7]. As a consequence, several tools and techniques have been proposed to help developers in detecting code smells and to suggest refactoring opportunities (e.g., [5, 6, 8]).

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Palomba-al:ICSE18,
  author    = {Fabio Palomba and
               Annibale Panichella and
               Andy Zaidman and
               Rocco Oliveto and
               Andrea De Lucia},
  title     = {The scent of a smell: an extensive comparison between textual and structural smells},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {740},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2018},
}

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