Impact of Co-Occurrences of Code Smells and Design Patterns on Internal Code Quality Attributes

Today's article comes from the IET Software journal. The authors are Imran et al., from FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, in Pakistan. In this paper they're investigating what happens when code smells and design patterns coexist in the same codebase. Specifically, they wanted to know: when these two phenomena appear together, what's the impact on internal quality metrics like coupling, cohesion, complexity, and size?

DOI: 10.1049/sfw2/5579438

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