When and why your code starts to smell bad

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 403-414

  Tufano, Michele ^a   Palomba, Fabio ^b   Bavota, Gabriele ^c   Olivetox, Rocco ^d   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^e   De Lucia, Andrea ^b   Poshyvanyk, Denys ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); ODORS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; CHANGE HISTORY; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MANUAL ANALYSIS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEMS; TECHNICAL DEBTS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84951770740     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2015.59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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