On The Relation of Test Smells to Software Code Quality

Test smells are sub-optimal design choices in the implementation of test code. As reported by recent studies, their presence might not only negatively affect the comprehension of test suites but can also lead to test cases being less effective in finding bugs in production code. Although significant steps toward understanding test smells, there...

Effects of Refactoring on Productivity in Relation to Code Understandability

Depending on the context, the benefits of clean code with respect to understandability might be less plain in the short term than is often claimed. This work has studied a system with legacy code in an industrial environment to evaluate if giving ‘clean code’ to developers would immediately lead to increases in productivity. They were given...

JavaScript Code Quality Analysis

Static analysis techniques provide a means to detect software errors early in the development process, without actually having to run the software that is being analyzed. These techniques are common for statically typed languages and have found their way into IDEs such as Eclipse and Visual Studio. However, applying the same techniques to...