Paper Info
Title
VISMELLS: An Interactive Visualization for Identifying and Evaluating the Effects of Code Smells on Software Projects
Abstract
Context: Code Smells indicate potential problems in the making of software projects. If considered harmful, they must be removed from the source code. Thus, it is important to enable developers to spot the source code artifacts that have been affected by Smells. Problem: however, there is a lack of adequate approaches to make the identification of Code Smells easier while providing details about their occurrences. Goals: in order to help developers to identify Code Smells, we have developed VISMELLS, an interactive visualization. Method: we elicited requirements with the purpose of defining the functionalities of VISMELLS. After implementing the visualization we went through a qualitative analysis of its application with the help of professional software developers and computer science students. Lastly, we used the data obtained from the evaluation to determine if VISMELLS met the targeted requirements. Results: as a result, we were able to confirm that VISMELLS fulfilled its intended purpose as it received good reviews from testers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/CLEI.2018.00015
2018 XLIV Latin American Computer Conference (CLEI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Code Smell,Visualization,VISMELLS
Data visualization,Software engineering,Source code,Visualization,Computer science,Interactive visualization,Software,Software metric,Code smell
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-0438-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Isaac de Jesus Silva100.34
Matheus Sampaio R. Santos200.34
Leandro Lopes Ramos300.34
Luis Paulo da Silva Carvalho450.76