An Empirical Study of the Impact of Two Antipatterns, Blob and Spaghetti Code, on Program Comprehension

• Published in: 2011 15th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering pp. 181 - 190
• Main Authors: Abbes, M, Khomh, F, Guéhéneuc, Yann-Gaël, Antoniol, G
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.03.2011
• Subjects: Analysis of variance; Antipatterns; Blob; Empirical Software Engineering; Indexes; Java; Maintenance engineering; NASA; Program Comprehension; Program Maintenance; Programming; Spaghetti Code; Time measurement

Antipatterns are "poor" solutions to recurring design problems which are conjectured in the literature to make object-oriented systems harder to maintain. However, little quantitative evidence exists to support this conjecture. We performed an empirical study to investigate whether the occ...