New Research on Elixir Code Quality Released

The PhD thesis, "Code Smells and Refactorings for Elixir," has been made publicly accessible. This research addresses a significant gap in the literature regarding the internal quality of systems built with the Elixir programming language. The study catalogs 35 code smells specific to Elixir, 23 of which are novel to the language. Additionally, the thesis outlines 82 refactoring strategies for Elixir, with 14 being new. The work includes surveys from developers worldwide to validate the findings and provides structured descriptions and code examples for each identified code smell and refactoring strategy. The research aims to offer practical guidelines for developers to improve code quality in Elixir projects.