• Journal of Software Engineering Society
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.93-103
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• 2013

Complexity and maintenance cost of software increase as much as software has been evolved, therefore importance of software maintenance recently arise. There are many signs that are difficulties to maintain software, called bad smell, in a large-scale software. The bad smell should be removed to improve maintainability. Recently, many software refactoring methods have researched to terminate the bad smell. In this paper, we propose how to identify long parameter list, which causes bad smell, and how to solve the problem for increasing software maintainability. In our approach, we classify the parameters for creating new objects by measuring semantic similarity among them. This is evaluated by experienced software developers, and the result is statistically verified.