A large scale empirical study of the impact of Spaghetti Code and Blob anti-patterns on program comprehension

• Published in: Information and software technology Vol. 122; p. 106278
• Main Authors: Politowski, Cristiano, Khomh, Foutse, Romano, Simone, Scanniello, Giuseppe, Petrillo, Fabio, Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël, Maiga, Abdou
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.06.2020
• Subjects: Anti-patterns; Blob; Java; Program comprehension; Spaghetti Code; Anti-patterns; Program comprehension; Java; Blob; Spaghetti Code

Several studies investigated the impact of anti-patterns (i.e., “poor” solutions to recurring design problems) during maintenance activities and reported that anti-patterns significantly affect the developers’ effort required to edit files. However, before developers edit files, they must understand...