: This paper defines algorithms to automatically detect five types of bad smells that occur in aspect-oriented systems, more specifically those written using the AspectJ language. ...
Software inspection is a known technique for improving software quality. It involves carefully examining the code, the design, and the documentation of software and checking these...
In order to customize their behavior at runtime, a wide sort of modern frameworks do use code annotations at the applications classes as metadata configuration. However, despite i...
—“God class” is a term used to describe a certain type of large classes which “know too much or do too much”. Often a God class (GC) is created by accident as functionali...
Refactoring is one means of improving the structure of existing software. Locations for the application of refactoring are often based on subjective perceptions such as ”bad sme...