Code smells reflect sub-optimal patterns of code that often lead to critical software flaws or failure. In the same way, community smells reflect sub-optimal organisational and socio-Technical patterns in the organisational structure of the software community. To understand the relation between the community smells and code smells we start by surveying 162 developers of nine open-source systems. Then we look deeper into this connection by conducting an empirical study of 117 releases from these systems. Our results indicate that community-related factors are intuitively perceived by most developers as causes of the persistence of code smells. Inspired by this observation we design a community-Aware prediction model for code smells and show that it outperforms a model that does not consider community factors.
Palomba, F., Tamburri, D., Serebrenik, A., Zaidman, A., Arcelli Fontana, F., & Oliveto, R. (2018). How do community smells influence code smells?. In ICSE '18 Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings (pp.240-241). 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA : IEEE Computer Society [10.1145/3183440.3194950].
How do community smells influence code smells?
Arcelli Fontana, FMembro del Collaboration Group
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2018
Abstract
Code smells reflect sub-optimal patterns of code that often lead to critical software flaws or failure. In the same way, community smells reflect sub-optimal organisational and socio-Technical patterns in the organisational structure of the software community. To understand the relation between the community smells and code smells we start by surveying 162 developers of nine open-source systems. Then we look deeper into this connection by conducting an empirical study of 117 releases from these systems. Our results indicate that community-related factors are intuitively perceived by most developers as causes of the persistence of code smells. Inspired by this observation we design a community-Aware prediction model for code smells and show that it outperforms a model that does not consider community factors.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.