The presence of code and design smells can have a severe impact on the quality of a program. Consequently, their detection and correction have drawn the attention of both research...
—“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...
Program quality represents the most significant part of software quality control that assures all characteristics of software products to satisfy the user's explicit and impl...
The Java programming language has gained increasing importance for the development of embedded systems. To be cost efficient, such systems have to cope with significant hardware...
Software products released into the field typically have some number of residual defects that either were not detected or could not have been detected during testing. This may be...
Christian Murphy, Gail E. Kaiser, Ian Vo, Matt Chu