Quantifying the effect of code smells on maintenance effort

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1144-1156

  Sjoberg, Dag I K ^a   Yamashita, Aiko ^a   Anda, Bente C D ^a   Mockus, Audris ^b   Dyba, Tore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

code churn; Maintainability; object oriented design; product metrics

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MAINTAINABILITY; MAINTENANCE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; PRODUCT DESIGN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CODE CHURN; MAINTENANCE EFFORTS; MAINTENANCE TASKS; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; PRODUCT METRICS; PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE; REFACTORINGS; WORK PRACTICES;

ODORS;

EID: 84881061684     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2012.89     Document Type: Article

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