Is There Any Correlation between Refactoring and Design Smell Occurrence?

Lerina Aversano, Mario Bernardi, Marta Cimitile, Martina Iammarino, Debora Montano

2022

Abstract

Software systems are constantly evolving making their architecture vulnerable to decay and the emergence of numerous design problems. This paper focuses on the occurrence of design smells in software systems and their elimination through the use of refactoring activities. To do this, the data relating to the presence of Design Smell, the use of refactoring, and the result of this use are analyzed in detail. In particular, the history of five open-source Java software systems and of 17 different types of design smells is studied. Overall, the results show that the removal of Design Smells is not correlated with the use of refactoring techniques. The analysis also provides useful insights about the developers’ use of refactoring activities, the likelihood of refactoring on affected commits and clean commits, and removing and/or adding Design Smells both during refactoring and manual code cleaning operations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Aversano L., Bernardi M., Cimitile M., Iammarino M. and Montano D. (2022). Is There Any Correlation between Refactoring and Design Smell Occurrence?. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-758-588-3, pages 129-136. DOI: 10.5220/0011139400003266

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft22,
author={Lerina Aversano and Mario Bernardi and Marta Cimitile and Martina Iammarino and Debora Montano},
title={Is There Any Correlation between Refactoring and Design Smell Occurrence?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2022},
pages={129-136},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011139400003266},
isbn={978-989-758-588-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Is There Any Correlation between Refactoring and Design Smell Occurrence?
SN - 978-989-758-588-3
AU - Aversano L.
AU - Bernardi M.
AU - Cimitile M.
AU - Iammarino M.
AU - Montano D.
PY - 2022
SP - 129
EP - 136
DO - 10.5220/0011139400003266