Prioritising refactoring using code bad smells

Proceedings - 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops, ICSTW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 458-464

  Zhang, Min ^a   Baddoo, Nathan ^a   Wernick, Paul ^a   Hall, Tracy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Code bad smells; Fault; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

CODE BAD SMELLS; FAULT; FAULT-PRONE; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE FAULT; SOURCE CODES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE TESTING; VERIFICATION;

ODORS;

EID: 80051658713     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSTW.2011.69     Document Type: Conference Paper

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