Do developers care about code smells? An exploratory survey

Proceedings - Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, WCRE

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 242-251

  Yamashita, Aiko ^a   Moonen, Leon ^a  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

Author keywords

code analysis tools; code smell detection; code smells; maintainability; refactoring; survey; usability

Indexed keywords

CODE ANALYSIS; CODE SMELL; EXPLORATORY SURVEYS; MAINTENANCE PROBLEM; PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE; REFACTORINGS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; USABILITY;

MAINTAINABILITY; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SURVEYING; SURVEYS; TOOLS;

ODORS;

EID: 84893376511     PISSN: 10951350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCRE.2013.6671299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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