Do they really smell bad? A study on developers' perception of bad code smells

Proceedings - 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 101-110

  Palomba, Fabio ^a   Bavota, Gabriele ^b   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^b   Oliveto, Rocco ^c   De Lucia, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Code Smells; Empirical Study

Indexed keywords

BAD CODE SMELLS; BAD SMELLS; CODE SMELL; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

ODORS;

EID: 84931061015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSME.2014.32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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