Code smell detection: Towards a machine learning-based approach

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 396-399

  Fontana, Francesca Arcelli ^a   Zanoni, Marco ^a   Marino, Alessandro ^a   Mäntylä, Mika V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Code smells detection; Machine learning techniques

Indexed keywords

CODE SMELL; DESIGN FEATURES; DETECTION TOOLS; LEARNING-BASED APPROACH; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; ON-MACHINES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; ODORS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84891688656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2013.56     Document Type: Conference Paper

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