How do community smells influence code smells?

Code smells reflect sub-optimal patterns of code that often lead to critical software flaws or failure. In the same way, community smells reflect sub-optimal organisational and socio-technical patterns in the organisational structure of the software community. To understand the relation between the...

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Published inProceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings pp. 240 - 241
Main Authors Palomba, Fabio, Tamburri, Damian A., Serebrenik, Alexander, Zaidman, Andy, Fontana, Francesca Arcelli, Oliveto, Rocco
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 27.05.2018
SeriesACM Conferences
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Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties
code smells
organisational structure
community smells
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ISBN145035663X
9781450356633
DOI10.1145/3183440.3194950

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Summary:Code smells reflect sub-optimal patterns of code that often lead to critical software flaws or failure. In the same way, community smells reflect sub-optimal organisational and socio-technical patterns in the organisational structure of the software community. To understand the relation between the community smells and code smells we start by surveying 162 developers of nine open-source systems. Then we look deeper into this connection by conducting an empirical study of 117 releases from these systems. Our results indicate that community-related factors are intuitively perceived by most developers as causes of the persistence of code smells. Inspired by this observation we design a community-aware prediction model for code smells and show that it outperforms a model that does not consider community factors.
ISBN:145035663X
9781450356633
DOI:10.1145/3183440.3194950