Do code smells reflect important maintainability aspects?

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 306-315

  Yamashita, Aiko ^a   Moonen, Leon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

code smells; maintainability evaluation

Indexed keywords

CODE SMELL; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; JAVA SYSTEM; MAINTENANCE PROJECTS; TWO SOURCES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; ODORS;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 84873185958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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