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Palomba, F. (author), Panichella, A. (author), Zaidman, A.E. (author), Oliveto, Rocco (author), De Lucia, Andrea (author)Code smells are symptoms of poor design or implementation choices that have a negative effect on several aspects of software maintenance and evolution, such as program comprehension or change- and fault-proneness. This is why researchers have spent a lot of effort on devising methods that help developers to automatically detect them in source...journal article 2018