DECOR: A method for the specification and detection of code and design smells

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-36

  Moha, Naouel ^a   Guéhéneuc, Yann Gaël ^b   Duchien, Laurence ^c   Le Meur, Anne Françoise ^c  

^a CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Antipatterns; Code smells; Design smells; Detection; Java.; Metamodeling; Specification

Indexed keywords

ANTI-PATTERNS; CODE SMELL; CODE SMELLS; DETECTION; METAMODELING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECIFICATIONS;

ODORS;

EID: 76749149064     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2009.50     Document Type: Article

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