Code smells for Model-View-Controller architectures

• Main Authors: ANICHE, Maurício, BAVOTA, Gabriele, TREUDE, Christoph, GEROSA, Marco Aurélio, VAN DEURSEN, Arie
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Code smells; Code anomalies; Code anti-patterns; Software maintenance; Code quality; Computer and Systems Architecture; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8764; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9767/viewcontent/mvc.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Previous studies have shown the negative effects that low-quality code can have on maintainability proxies, such as code change- and defect-proneness. One of the symptoms of low-quality code are code smells, defined as sub-optimal implementation choices. While this definition is quite general and se...