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

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices that may hinder code comprehensibility and maintainability. Despite the effort devoted by the research community in studying code smells, the extent to which code smells in software systems affect software maintainability remains sti...

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Published in:	Empirical software engineering : an international journal Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 1188 - 1221
Main Authors:	Palomba, Fabio, Bavota, Gabriele, Penta, Massimiliano Di, Fasano, Fausto, Oliveto, Rocco, Lucia, Andrea De
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer US 01.06.2018 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Compilers Computer Science Freeware Interpreters Maintainability Programming Languages Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems Source code Empirical studies Code smells Mining software repositories
ISSN:	1382-3256, 1573-7616
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