This short paper is a summary of my doctoral research, which was conducted under Oege
de Moor's supervision at the University of Oxford, starting October 2001. The thesis was …

This position paper identifies emerging trends in refactoring research, and enumerates a list
of open questions, from a practical as well as a theoretical point of view. We suggest these …

Refactoring restructures a program to improve its structure without altering its behavior.
However, it is challenging to preserve the domain semantics of a program when refactoring …

Though refactoring tools have been available for more than a decade, research has shown
that programmers underutilize such tools. However, little is known about why programmers …

Refactoring is an important activity in the evolutionary development of object-oriented
software systems. Yet, several questions about the practice of refactoring remain …

In order to reduce coupling and increase cohesion, we refactor program source code.
Previous research efforts for suggesting candidates of such refactorings are based on static …

Context: Refactoring is the art of modifying the design of a system without altering its
behavior. The idea is to reorganize variables, classes and methods to facilitate their future …

Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring code to improve its readability and
maintainability. Almost all modern integrated development environments (IDEs) offer built-in …

Refactoring improves the design of existing code but is not complex to do by hand. This
paper proposes a mechanism that automatically refactors methods of object-oriented …

Automated refactorings may change the program behavior. We propose an approach and its
implementation called SafeRefactor for making program refactoring safer. We applied 10 …