Computer Science
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Code Smells Revealed: Why Your Software Quality Is at Risk

2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering
When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad
Michele Tufano, Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, Massimiliano Di Penta, Andrea De Lucia, Denys Poshyvanyk

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