Background: With the development of smart grids, accurate electric load forecasting has
become increasingly important as it can help power companies in better load scheduling and …

Test smells are defined as sub-optimal design choices developers make when implementing
test cases. Hence, similar to code smells, the research community has produced numerous …

Third-party library reuse has become common practice in contemporary software development,
as it includes several benefits for developers. Library dependencies are constantly …

Software systems nowadays are complex and difficult to maintain due to continuous changes
and bad design choices. To handle the complexity of systems, software products are, in …

Context: Refactoring is the art of modifying the design of a system without altering its
behavior. The idea is to reorganize variables, classes and methods to facilitate their future …

Short term electric load forecasting plays a crucial role for utility companies, as it allows for
the efficient operation and management of power grid networks, optimal balancing between …

One of the most widely used techniques to improve the quality of existing software systems
is refactoring—the process of improving the design of existing code by changing its internal …

The test code, just like production source code, is subject to bad design and programming
practices, also known as smells. The presence of test smells in a software project may affect …

Detecting and fixing defects make programs easier to understand by developers. We propose
an automated approach for the detection and correction of various types of design defects …

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is widely used in industry and is regarded as one of the
preferred architectural design technologies. As with any other software system, service-…