It is widely believed that refactoring improves software quality and developer productivity.
However, few empirical studies quantitatively assess refactoring benefits or investigate …

It is widely believed that refactoring improves software quality and developer productivity.
However, few empirical studies quantitatively assess refactoring benefits or investigate …

Refactoring is widely practiced by developers, and considerable research and development
effort has been invested in refactoring tools. However, little has been reported about the …

Despite the availability of refactoring as a feature in popular IDEs, recent studies revealed
that developers are reluctant to use them, and still prefer the manual refactoring of their …

Refactoring is a well-established practice that aims at improving the internal structure of a
software system without changing its external behavior. Existing literature provides evidence …

Refactoring aims at improving the maintainability of source code without modifying its
external behavior. Previous works proposed approaches to recommend refactoring …

Refactoring is widely recognized as one of the efficient techniques to manage technical debt
and maintain a healthy software project through enforcing best design practices, or coping …

An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is performed by
developers, regardless of technology or domain, to improve the internal quality of the …

We provide an extensive overview of existing research in the field of software refactoring.
This research is compared and discussed based on a number of different criteria: the …

Despite the enormous success that manual and automated refactoring has enjoyed during
the last decade, we know little about the practice of refactoring. Understanding the …