Intelligent Mining of Association Rules Based on Nanopatterns for Code Smells Detection

Table 4

Outline of fundamental nanopatterns.

Category	Name	Outline
Calling	NoParams	Takes no arguments
	NoReturn	Returns void
	Recursive	Calls itself recursively
	SameName	Calls another method with the same name
	Leaf	Does not issue any method calls
Object-orientation	ObjectCreator	Creates new objects
	FieldReader	Reads field values from an object
	FieldWriter	Writes values to the field of an object
	TypeManipulator	Uses typecast or instance of operations
Control flow	StraightLine	No branches in a method body
	Looping	One or more control flow loops in a method body
	Exceptions	May throw an unhandled exception
Data flow	LocalReader	Read values of local variables on a stack frame
	LocalWriter	Writes values of local variables on a stack frame
	ArrayCreator	Creates a new array
	ArrayReader	Reads values from an array
	ArrayWriter	Writes values to an array