ECOOP
2007
Springer
13 years 8 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
13 years 9 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
13 years 10 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
13 years 10 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
13 years 11 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
13 years 11 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,”...