Title
Ten years of JDeodorant: Lessons learned from the hunt for smells
Abstract
Deodorants are different from perfumes, because they are applied directly on body and by killing bacteria they reduce odours and offer a refreshing fragrance. That was our goal when we first thought about "bad smells" in code: to develop techniques for effectively identifying and removing (i.e., deodorizing) code smells from object-oriented software. JDeodorant encompasses a number of techniques for suggesting and automatically applying refactoring opportunities on Java source code, in a way that requires limited effort on behalf of the developer. In contrast to other approaches that rely on generic strategies that can be adapted to various smells, JDeodorant adopts ad-hoc strategies for each smell considering the particular characteristics of the underlying design or code problem. In this retrospective paper, we discuss the impact of JDeodorant over the last ten years and a number of tools and techniques that have been developed for a similar purpose which either compare their results with JDeodorant or have built on top of JDeodorant. Finally, we discuss the empirical findings from a number of studies that employed JDeodorant to extract their datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/SANER.2018.8330192
2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Code Smells,Refactoring,Object-Oriented Software
Software engineering,Computer science,Feature extraction,Software,Code refactoring,Open source software,Code smell,Java source code
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-4970-1
6
0.45
References 
Authors
39
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nikolaos Tsantalis174332.14
Theodoros Chaikalis2693.96
Alexander Chatzigeorgiou379060.13