Abstract:<p>Code smells are structures in code that often have a
negative impact on its quality. Manually detecting code smells is challenging
and researchers proposed many automatic code smell detectors. Most of the
studies propose detectors based on code metrics and heuristics. However, these
studies have several limitations, including evaluating the detectors using
small-scale case studies and an inconsistent experimental setting. Furthermore,
heuristic-based detectors suffer from limitations that hinder their… Show more
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