The impact of structural source code changes on software quality

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Črt Gerlec ◽  
Marjan Heričko
2021 ◽  
Vol 135 ◽  
pp. 106566
Author(s):  
Lobna Ghadhab ◽  
Ilyes Jenhani ◽  
Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer ◽  
Montassar Ben Messaoud

Author(s):  
Amanda Damasceno Santana ◽  
Eduardo Figueiredo

When a system evolution is not planned, developers can take decisions that degrade the system quality. To cope with this problem, refactoring can be applied to the source code aiming to increase code quality without modifying the software external behavior. To know when to refactor, the concept of bad smells can be used. Bad smells are snippets of source code that suggest the need of refactoring. However, bad smells does not always appear isolated. The aim of this study is to understand the impact of bad smell agglomerations on the software quality by evaluating a large dataset of open source systems. To achieve our goal, we plan to use data mining techniques complemented with correlation analysis of the dataset.


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