INVESTIGADORES
DIAZ PACE Jorge Andres
artículos
Título:
An Approach to Prioritize Code Smells for Refactoring
Autor/es:
SANTIAGO A. VIDAL; CLAUDIA MARCOS; JORGE ANDRES DIAZ PACE
Revista:
AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Editorial:
SPRINGER
Referencias:
Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2014
ISSN:
0928-8910
Resumen:
Code smells are a popular mechanism to find structural design problems in software systems. Consequently, several tools have emerged to support the detection of code smells. However, the number of smells returned by current tools usually exceeds the amount of problems that the developer can deal with, particularly when the e ffort available for performing refactorings is limited. Moreover, not all the code smells are equally relevant to the goals of the system or its health. This article presents a semi-automated approach that helps developers focus on the most critical problems of the system. We have developed a tool that suggests a ranking of code smells, based on a com- bination of three criteria, namely: past component modications, important modifiability scenarios for the system, and relevance of the kind of smell. These criteria are complementary and enable our approach to assess the smells from di fferent perspectives. Our approach has been evaluated in two case-studies, and the results show that the suggested code smells are useful to developers.
