Is a strategy for code smell assessment long overdue?

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 32-38

  Counsell, S ^a   Hierons, R M ^a   Hamza, H ^a   Black, S ^b   Durrand, M ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Change scom   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C ; code smells; empirical studies; Java; refactoring

Indexed keywords

CODE SMELL; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; JAVA SYSTEM; KEY FACTORS; OPEN-SOURCE; REFACTORINGS; RESEARCH STRATEGY; SUB-SYSTEMS; WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

ODORS;

EID: 77954705963     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1809223.1809228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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