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...
Abstract-- Code and design smells are poor solutions to recurring implementation and design problems. They may hinder the evolution of a system by making it hard for software engin...
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...
Real production code contains lots of knowledge—on the domain, on the architecture, and on the environment. How can we leverage this knowledge in new projects? Using a novel lig...
Natalie Gruska, Andrzej Wasylkowski, Andreas Zelle...
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...