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Java Quality Assurance by Detecting Code Smells (2002)
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| Venue: | in Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering. IEEE Computer |
| Citations: | 149 - 5 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Emden02javaquality,
author = {Eva Van Emden and Leon Moonen},
title = {Java Quality Assurance by Detecting Code Smells},
booktitle = {in Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering. IEEE Computer},
year = {2002},
pages = {97--107},
publisher = {Society Press}
}
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Abstract
Software inspection is a known technique for improving software quality. It involves carefully examining the code, the design, and the documentation of software and checking these for aspects that are known to be potentially problematic based on past experience. Code smells are a metaphor to describe patterns that are generally associated with bad design and bad programming practices. Originally, code smells are used to find the places in software that could benefit from refactoring. In this paper, we investigate how the quality of code can be automatically assessed by checking for the presence of code smells and how this approach can contribute to automatic code inspection. We present an approach for the automatic detection and visualization of code smells and discuss how this approach can be used in the design of a software inspection tool. We illustrate the feasibility of our approach with the development of jCOSMO, a prototype code smell browser that detects and visualizes code smells in JAVA source code. Finally, we show how this tool was applied in a case study. Keywords: software inspection, quality assurance, Java, refactoring, code smells.
