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ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018) May 27 - June 3, 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden

Identifying Design Problems in the Source Code: A Grounded Theory

The prevalence of design problems may cause re-engineering or even discontinuation of the system. Due to missing, informal or outdated design documentation, developers often have to rely on the source code to identify design problems. Therefore, …

On the Identification of Design Problems in Stinky Code: Experiences and Tool Support

Background: Developers often have to locate design problems in the source code. Several types of design problems may manifest as code smells in the program. A code smell is a source code structure that may reveal a partial hint about the …