An exploratory study of the impact of code smells on software change-proneness

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 75-84

  Khomh, Foutse ^a   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^b   Guéhéneuc, Yann Gaël ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Code smells; Empirical software engineering; Mining software repositories

Indexed keywords

CODE SMELL; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEM; POSTERIORI; SOFTWARE CHANGE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ODORS;

EID: 73449136137     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2009.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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