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Software maintenance is a daunting task but equally crucial for an aging software. Software maintainability is one of the important quality aspects, which is directly affected by code smells. Software maintenance requires considerable amount of budget which is sometimes even much higher than the actual cost of software development. Some bad practices, such as code clones, anti-patterns, and bad smells, ultimately result in severe maintenance consequences. In this paper, an experimental attempt is made, which is based on market basket analysis to answer this question: “Whether bad smells follow some pattern or not?” by studying the behavior of bad smells and their co-occurrences.
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Anubhuti Garg, Mugdha Gupta, Garvit Bansal, Bharavi Mishra, Vikas Bajpai (2016). Do Bad Smells Follow Some Pattern?. In: Satapathy, S., Bhatt, Y., Joshi, A., Mishra, D. (eds) Proceedings of the International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 438. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0767-5_5
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