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Architecture Smell Detection

Architecture smells are recurring patterns in system structure that indicate potential design problems. Introduced by García et al. (2009), these patterns signal violations of architectural principles (modularity, independence, abstraction) at system scale. Detection combines code metrics, dependency analysis, and pattern recognition to identify smells early, guiding refactoring and architectural improvements.

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Architectural Anti-pattern and Smell Identification
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / software-engineering
  • Fowler, M. (2018). Code smell. Martin Fowler's Website. · URL
  • Garcia, J., Popescu, D., Edwards, G., & Medvidovic, N. (2009). Identifying architectural bad smells. In Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (pp. 141–150). · DOI 10.1109/csmr.2009.59
  • Lanza, M., & Marinescu, R. (2005). Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice. Springer. · URL
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