Are all code smells harmful? A study of God Classes and Brain Classes in the evolution of three open source systems

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Olbrich, Steffen M ^a   Cruzes, Daniela S ^b   Sjoøberg, Dag I K ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Change frequency; Code smells; Defects; Detection strategies; Open source; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

CHANGE FREQUENCIES; CODE SMELL; DETECTION STRATEGIES; OPEN SOURCES; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DEFECTS; MAINTAINABILITY; ODORS; TEACHING;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650166517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2010.5609564     Document Type: Conference Paper

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