When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad
When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad is a scholarly work by Massimiliano Di Penta, Gabriele Bavota, Fabio Palomba, Andrea De Lucia, and Rocco Oliveto, published in 2015. The main subjects of the publication include software refactoring, software development, quality, reliability engineering, cindynics, software quality, empirical research, data science, software, open-source software, code smell, software engineering, code, computer science, and technical debt. In the light of the results, authors also call for the need to develop a new generation of recommendation systems aimed at properly planning smell refactoring activities.