Impact of code smells on software development environments: a study based on ENTROPY-CODAS method
International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management
ISSN: 0265-671X
Article publication date: 4 April 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The relationship between the various existing smell taxonomies and the smell impacting factors has been established. The ideology is to identify the most critical smell influencing factors in the vicinity of various software development environments.
Design/methodology/approach
To fulfill the said task, the utilization of the amalgamation of two multicriteria decision-making techniques, namely, Entropy method and CODAS method, is presented.
Findings
Through this article, the most critical smell impacting criteria with respect to the smell taxonomies is identified. Furthermore, the behaviour of 4 software development principles was then analysed, and their working state has been successfully assessed.
Originality/value
The ideology to study design-related smells in the software system has been studied by a lot of researchers. Some of them have worked upon their detection and the corresponding refactoration process with the help of several algorithms like machine learning and artificial intelligence. But how and to what extent these design-related smells impact the software development environment has remained out of the limelight till now. Through this article, this research gap has been identified, and an attempt to fill it has been made.
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Citation
Anand, A., Gupta, P., Tamura, Y. and Papic, L. (2023), "Impact of code smells on software development environments: a study based on ENTROPY-CODAS method", International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQRM-08-2022-0254
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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