Landfill: An open dataset of code smells with public evaluation

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices that may hinder code comprehension and possibly increase the change- and fault-proneness of source code. Several techniques have been proposed in the literature for detecting code smells. These techniques are generally evaluated by comparing their accuracy on a set of detected candidate code smells against a manually-produced oracle. Unfortunately, such comprehensive sets of annotated code smells are not available in the literature, with only a few exceptions. This dataset provides 243 instances of five types of code smells identified from 20 open-source software projects. In particular, it contains a SQL file with the information concerning such instances and a zip file with their source code.