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

The quality of a software system is mostly defined by its source code. Software evolves
continuously, it gets modified, enhanced, and new requirements always arise. If we do not …

Refactoring is one key issue to increase internal software quality during the whole software
lifecycle. Since identifying structures where refactorings should be applied often is explained …

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 …

Refactorings are behavior-preserving source code transformations. While tool support exists
for (semi) automatically identifying refactoring solutions, applying or not a recommended …

Refactoring aims at improving the internal structure of a software system without changing its
external behavior. Previous studies empirically assessed, on the one hand, the benefits of …

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 …

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 …

Refactoring is one of the means of managing technical debt and maintaining a healthy
software structure through enforcing best design practices, or coping with design defects …

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 …