The high cost of software maintenance could potentially be greatly reduced by the automatic
refactoring of object-oriented programs to increase their understandability, adaptability and …

Software refactoring has been identified as a key technique for the maintenance and
evolution of object-oriented systems. Most interesting are high-impact refactorings, that is …

This paper presents an empirical study of drivers for software refactoring decisions. We
studied the refactoring decisions made by 37 students evaluating ten methods of a …

Software systems undergo modifications, improvements and enhancements to cope with
evolving requirements. This maintenance can cause their quality to decrease. Various …

This paper presents Xrefactory a refactoring browser for C and Java languages. The paper
discusses a way how refactoring browsers can thresh-passe non-trivial complications …

Up to 75% of the costs associated with the development of software systems occur post-
deployment during maintenance and evolution. Software refactoring is a process that can …

Refactoring-transforming code while preserving behaviour-is considered a key approach for
improving object-oriented software systems. Unfortunately, all of the current refactoring tools …

Post-deployment maintenance and evolution can account for up to 75% of the cost of
developing a software system. Software refactoring can reduce the costs associated with …

The notion of refactoring-transforming the source-code of an object-oriented program
without changing its external behaviour-has been studied intensively within the last decade …

Software has been and is still mostly refactored without tool support. Moreover, as we found
in our case studies, programmers tend not to document these changes as refactorings, or …