Code smells debt can make or break software quality evaluation.
The article investigates how code smells impact the quality of code. The researchers focused on three specific code smells in open source systems from different fields. They aimed to determine which code smells should be fixed first and if these smells vary based on the application domain. The study found that certain code smells need to be addressed before others to improve code quality, and that these smells can be tailored to specific types of systems.