Abstract

Knowing the impact of bad programming practices or code smells has led researchers to conduct numerous studies in software maintenance. Most of the studies have defined code smells as bad practices that may affect the quality of the software. However, most of the existing research is heavily focused on detecting traditional code smells and less focused on mobile application specific Android code smells. Presently, there is a few papers that focus on android code smells - a catalog for Android code smells. This catalog defines 30 Android specific code smell that may impact maintainability of an app. In this research, we plan to introduce a detector tool called \textit{BadDroidDetector} for Android code smells that can detect 13 code smells from the catalog. We will also conduct an empirical study to know the distribution of 13 smell that we detect and know the severity of these smells.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Android (Electronic resource); Debugging in computer science; Computer software--Reliability

Publication Date

12-2018

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Software Engineering (MS)

Department, Program, or Center

Software Engineering (GCCIS)

Advisor

Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer

Advisor/Committee Member

Yasmine El-Glaly

Advisor/Committee Member

Christian D. Newman

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

Plan Codes

SOFTENG-MS

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