“…• 38% of studies focused on tools and methods. Studies (Witten and Frank, 2002;Holschuh et al, 2009;Olbrich et al, 2009;Yamashita et al, 2009;Carneiro et al, 2010;Tempero et al, 2010;Macia et al, 2011;Maneerat and Muenchaisri, 2011;Oliveto et al, 2011;Zhang et al, 2011;Fontana et al, 2012a;Peters and Zaidman, 2012;Fontana et al, 2013a;Palomba et al, 2013;Chatzigeorgiou and Manakos, 2014;Wohlin, 2014;Fontana et al, 2016b;Hermans and Aivaloglou, 2016;Palomba et al, 2016;Mansoor et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2018;Azeem et al, 2019;Guggulothu and Moiz, 2020;Pritam et al, 2019;Pritam et al, 2019;Gupta et al, 2021;Jain and Saha, 2021) are found to enhance tools and proposed methodology to identify code smells. This depicts that the primary goal during the study on code smell was the detection of smell and its methodology.…”