Tracking design smells: Lessons from a study of God classes

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 145-154

  Vaucher, Stéphane ^a   Khomh, Foutse ^a   Moha, Naouel ^b   Guéhéneuc, Yann Gaël ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Design smells; Empirical study; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION MECHANISM; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GOOD CODE; LARGE CLASS; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE QUALITY; TRACKING DESIGN;

ACCIDENTS; ODORS; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 73449093170     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2009.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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