Some code smells have a significant but small effect on faults
- Submitting institution
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University of Hertfordshire
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 17277874
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1145/2629648
- Title of journal
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering & Methodology
- Article number
- 33
- First page
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- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 4
- ISSN
- 1049-331X
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 68
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This transaction paper identifies an association between some of the less frequently studied code smells and defects. The significance of this paper is that although associations exist, the effect sizes are small, suggesting that code smells may not be the most important aspect of code quality. The identification of the smells was the culmination of three years of work, using multiple researchers and developers to test the reliability of the tools developed to correctly identify the presence of code smells. Bowes and Hall have since taken up a senior lectureship and professorship at Lancaster University.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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