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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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06/14/2022
A Hierarchical-DBSCAN Method for Extracting Microservices from Monolithic Applications
The microservices architectural style offers many advantages such as sca...
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05/17/2022
On the Use of Refactoring in Security Vulnerability Fixes: An Exploratory Study on Maven Libraries
Third-party library dependencies are commonplace in today's software dev...
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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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09/30/2021
Predicting Code Review Completion Time in Modern Code Review
Context. Modern Code Review (MCR) is being adopted in both open source a...
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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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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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04/29/2021
Test Smell Detection Tools: A Systematic Mapping Study
Test smells are defined as sub-optimal design choices developers make wh...
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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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05/13/2020
Many-Objective Software Remodularization using NSGA-III
Software systems nowadays are complex and difficult to maintain due to c...
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07/10/2019
Do Design Metrics Capture Developers Perception of Quality? An Empirical Study on Self-Affirmed Refactoring Activities
Background. Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance and i...
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06/07/2019
Learning to Recommend Third-Party Library Migration Opportunities at the API Level
The manual migration between different third-party libraries represents ...
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06/02/2019
On the Use of Information Retrieval to Automate the Detection of Third-Party Java Library Migration at the Method Level
The migration process between different third-party libraries is hard, c...
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09/27/2017
An Empirical Study on the Impact of Refactoring Activities on Evolving Client-Used APIs
Context: Refactoring is recognized as an effective practice to maintain ...
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09/14/2017
On the Impact of Micro-Packages: An Empirical Study of the npm JavaScript Ecosystem
The rise of user-contributed Open Source Software (OSS) ecosystems demon...
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09/14/2017
