Comparison of Occurrence of Design Smells in Desktop and Mobile Applications
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Date
2020
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ACSE
Abstract
Design smells are symptoms of poor solutions to
recurring design problems in a software system. Those symptoms
have a direct negative impact on software quality by making
it difficult to comprehend and maintain. In this paper we
compare the occurrence of design smells between different
technological ecosystems: windows/desktop and android/mobile.
This knowledge is significant for various software maintenance
activities such as program quality assurance and refactoring.
To supplement previous findings, our study aimed at (a) understanding
if and how the relationship among design smells differs
across windows and mobile applications and (b) determining the
groups of design smells that tend to occur frequently together
and the magnitude of their occurrence in windows and mobile
applications. In this study, we explored the use of statistics and
unsupervised learning on a dataset consisting of twelve (12) Javabased
open-source projects mined from GitHub. We identified
fifteen (15) most frequent design smells across desktop and
mobile applications. Additionally, a clustering technique revealed
which groups of design smells that often co-occur. Specifically,
{SpeculativeGenerality, SwissArmyKnife} and {LongParameterList,
ClassDataShouldBePrivate} are observed to occur frequently
together in desktop and mobile applications.
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Design Smells, Clustering, Software Quality, Anti-patterns
Citation
Ogenrwot, D., Nakatumba-Nabende, J., & Chaudron, M. R. (2020). Comparison of Occurrence of Design Smells in Desktop and Mobile Applications. In ACSE.