An Empirical Study of the Impact of Two Antipatterns, Blob and Spaghetti Code, on Program Comprehension

By Marwen Abbes, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, G. Antoniol. European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2011

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On the diffuseness and the impact on maintainability of code smells: a large scale empirical investigation (2017, background): “2017), and whether they impact on software quality properties, such as program comprehensibility (Abbes et al. 2011), fault- and change-proneness (Khomh et al.”
When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad (and Whether the Smells Go Away) (2017, unknown): “[1] studied the impact of two types of code smells, namely Blob and Spaghetti Code, on program comprehension.”