Mashail8/Code-Smells: Code Smell Taxonomy Research Materials

Code Smell Taxonomy Research Materials

This repository contains the materials used in the research study "A Novel Taxonomy to Capture Code Smells Caused by Refactoring".

Contents

• experiments_projects/ - ZIP file containing all experiment projects. Each experiment is a folder named after the smell relationship, e.g. Data Clumps_Extract Class_Lazy Class. Inside are before and after refactoring code examples. • validation_projects/ - Open source Java projects JHotDraw and Commons-Codec used to validate taxonomy relationships. • illustrative_examples/ - Projects like Quartz and Checkstyle are used to demonstrate applying the taxonomy for refactoring prioritization and sequencing. • experiments_material/ - Materials from controlled experiments evaluating the taxonomy with developers, including instructions, data, and questionnaires.

Replicating the Study

To replicate the taxonomy research:

Analyze the single-smell projects in experiments_projects/ using the tools mentioned in the paper or use manual factoring. Examine and validate relationships against projects in validation_projects/ Compare your taxonomy outcomes to the taxonomy in the paper Evaluate the taxonomy following the protocol in experiments_material/