ECOOP
2007
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2007
Springer
In this paper, we present our approach to a visual refactoring tool, the Type Access Analyzer (TAA), which uses program analysis to detect code smells and for suggesting and perfo...
WCRE
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
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...
AOSD
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper, we present a collection of aspect-oriented refactorings covering both the extraction of aspects from objectoriented legacy code and the subsequent tidying up of the...
WCRE
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
Software decay is a phenomenon that plagues aging software systems. While in recent years, there has been significant progress in the area of automatic detection of “code smells...
WCRE
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
—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-...
CSMR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Certain design fragments in software architectures can have a negative impact on system maintainability. In this paper, we introduce the concept of architectural “bad smells,”...