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Context: Code smells are symptoms in the source code that represent poor design choices. Professional developers often perceive several types of code smells as indicators of actual design problems. However, the identification of code smells involves multiple steps that are subjective in nature, requiring the engagement of humans. Human factors are likely to play a key role in the precise identification...
Context: Surveys constitute an valuable tool to capture a large-scale snapshot of the state of the practice. Apparently trivial to adopt, surveys hide, however, several pitfalls that might hinder rendering the result valid and, thus, useful. Goal: We aim at providing an overview of main pitfalls in software engineering surveys and report on practical ways to deal with them. Method: We build on the...
Background Establishing representative samples for Software Engineering surveys is still considered a challenge. Specialized literature often presents limitations on interpreting surveys’ results, mainly due to the use of sampling frames established by convenience and non-probabilistic criteria for sampling from them. In this sense, we argue that a strategy to support the systematic establishment...
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