Aniche, MaurĂcio (author), Bavota, Gabriele (author), Treude, Christoph (author), Gerosa, Marco AurĂ©lio (author), van Deursen, A. (author) Previous studies have shown the negative effects that low-quality code can have on maintainability proxies, such as code change- and defect-proneness. One of the symptoms for low-quality code are code smells, defined as sub-optimal implementation choices. While this definition is quite general and seems to suggest a wide spectrum of smells that...
journal article 2018