Kent Beck coined the term "code smell" in the popular Refactoring book by Martin Fowler and defined it informally as certain structures in the code that suggest (sometimes they scream for) the possibility of refactoring. Since then, various smells have been reported that impair software quality in one or more …
If code-quality is one of your concerns, you must be aware of code smells and design smells. Similarly, code written in configuration management systems such as Puppet and Chef is also prone to such maintainability smells.
Recently, we (myself, Prof. Diomidis Spinellis, and Marios Fragkoulis) have worked on configuration smells …
Machine Learning for Source Code Analysis (ML4SCA)