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

Successful software products evolve through a process of continual change. However, this
process may weaken the design of the software and make it unnecessarily complex, leading …

Refactoring is the process of changing the structure of code without changing its behavior.
Refactoring can be semi-automated with tools, which should make it easier for programmers …

Refactoring a software artifact is an embedded task in the maintenance phase of the
software life cycle. To reduce the time and effort required for this task, researchers proposed …

In this paper we provide an detailed overview of existing research in the field of software
restructuring and refactoring, from a formal as well as a practical point of view. Next, we …

One of the important ways to make software soft,(ie, easy to change, reuse, and develop), is
to automate the various program transformations that occur as software evolves. Automating …

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

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 …