Practitioners' Expectations on Code Smell Detection

• Published in: 2024 IEEE 48th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) pp. 1324 - 1333
• Main Authors: Zhang, Zexian, Yin, Shuang, Wei, Wenliu, Ma, Xiaoxue, Keung, Jacky Wai, Li, Fuyang, Hu, Wenhua
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 02.07.2024
• Subjects: Accuracy; Bibliographies; Code Smell Detection; Codes; Empirical Study; Focusing; Practitioners' Expectations; Software; Source coding; Surveys

Code smell detection can automatically identify code smells in software source code to help developers to improve code maintainability, readability, and overall code quality. Currently, a wide variety of code smell detection techniques/tools are proposed for practical use. However, it is unclear wha...