Purpose The relationship between the various existing smell taxonomies and the smell impacting factors has been established. The ideology is to identify the most critical smell influencing factors in the vicinity of various software development environments. Design/methodology/approach To...

About the Guest Editor Jezdimir Knezevic is the President of the MIRCE Akademy of SystemOperational Science and professor at its School for System Operational Solutions. His 20 years ofacademic and professional experience in reliability, maintenance and logistics engineering, hasbeen summarised...