Code and design smells are recurring design problems in software systems that must be identified to avoid their possible negative consequences on development and maintenance. Conse...
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...
Design defects come from poor design choices and have the effect of degrading the quality of object-oriented designs. Therefore, they present opportunities for improvements. Howev...
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...
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...