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...
—Code smells are poor implementation choices, thought to make object-oriented systems hard to maintain. In this study, we investigate if classes with code smells are more change-...
Manual reviews and inspections of software artefacts are time consuming and thus, automated analysis tools have been developed to support the quality assurance of software artefac...
Code smells are design flaws in object-oriented designs that may lead to maintainability issues in the further evolution of the software system. This study focuses on the evolutio...
Steffen Olbrich, Daniela Cruzes, Victor R. Basili,...
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...