Do bad smells indicate "Trouble" in code?

DEFECTS'08: 2008 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis - Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on Defects in Large Software Systems 2008, DEFECTS'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 43-44

  Zhang, Min ^a   Hall, Tracy ^b   Baddoo, Nathan ^a   Wernick, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bad smells; Faults; Open source

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; ODORS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

BAD SMELLS; FAULTS; OPEN SOURCE; REFACTORING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 57349194424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390817.1390831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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