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06/09/2023
State of Refactoring Adoption: Better Understanding Developer Perception of Refactoring
We aim to explore how developers document their refactoring activities d...
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02/11/2023
On the Use of Static Analysis to Engage Students with Software Quality Improvement: An Experience with PMD
Static analysis tools are frequently used to scan the source code and de...
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02/07/2023
Just-in-Time Code Duplicates Extraction
Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance, and is usually p...
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10/18/2022
Finding the Needle in a Haystack: On the Automatic Identification of Accessibility User Reviews
In recent years, mobile accessibility has become an important trend with...
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03/27/2022
Code Review Practices for Refactoring Changes: An Empirical Study on OpenStack
Modern code review is a widely used technique employed in both industria...
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03/19/2022
An Exploratory Study on Refactoring Documentation in Issues Handling
Understanding the practice of refactoring documentation is of paramount ...
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03/10/2022
Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and Refactoring
To meet project timelines or budget constraints, developers intentionall...
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12/02/2021
On the Documentation of Refactoring Types
Commit messages are the atomic level of software documentation. They pro...
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11/13/2021
Refactoring for Reuse: An Empirical Study
Refactoring is the de-facto practice to optimize software health. While ...
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10/23/2021
How Do I Refactor This? An Empirical Study on Refactoring Trends and Topics in Stack Overflow
An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is ...
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09/23/2021
Behind the Scenes: On the Relationship Between Developer Experience and Refactoring
Refactoring is widely recognized as one of the efficient techniques to m...
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07/15/2021
One Thousand and One Stories: A Large-Scale Survey of Software Refactoring
Despite the availability of refactoring as a feature in popular IDEs, re...
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06/30/2021
SATDBailiff- Mining and Tracking Self-Admitted Technical Debt
Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) is a metaphorical concept to describ...
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06/25/2021
On Preserving the Behavior in Software Refactoring: A Systematic Mapping Study
Context: Refactoring is the art of modifying the design of a system with...
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03/16/2021
Using Grammar Patterns to Interpret Test Method Name Evolution
It is good practice to name test methods such that they are comprehensib...
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02/10/2021
Refactoring Practices in the Context of Modern Code Review: An Industrial Case Study at Xerox
Modern code review is a common and essential practice employed in both i...
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10/26/2020
How We Refactor and How We Document it? On the Use of Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms to Classify Refactoring Documentation
Refactoring is the art of improving the design of a system without alter...
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09/19/2020
Toward the Automatic Classification of Self-Affirmed Refactoring
The concept of Self-Affirmed Refactoring (SAR) was introduced to explore...
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07/10/2019