Empirical Analysis on Effectiveness of NLP Methods for Predicting Code Smell

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04656v1
• Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2021 12:10:20 GMT
• Title: Empirical Analysis on Effectiveness of NLP Methods for Predicting Code Smell
• Authors: Himanshu Gupta, Abhiram Anand Gulanikar, Lov Kumar and Lalita Bhanu Murthy Neti
• Abstract summary: A code smell is a surface indicator of an inherent problem in the system. We use three Extreme learning machine kernels over 629 packages to identify eight code smells. Our findings indicate that the radial basis functional kernel performs best out of the three kernel methods with a mean accuracy of 98.52.
• Score: 3.2973778921083357
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: A code smell is a surface indicator of an inherent problem in the system, most often due to deviation from standard coding practices on the developers part during the development phase. Studies observe that code smells made the code more susceptible to call for modifications and corrections than code that did not contain code smells. Restructuring the code at the early stage of development saves the exponentially increasing amount of effort it would require to address the issues stemming from the presence of these code smells. Instead of using traditional features to detect code smells, we use user comments to manually construct features to predict code smells. We use three Extreme learning machine kernels over 629 packages to identify eight code smells by leveraging feature engineering aspects and using sampling techniques. Our findings indicate that the radial basis functional kernel performs best out of the three kernel methods with a mean accuracy of 98.52.

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