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 …

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 …

Refactoring, ie, the process of changing a software system to improve its internal quality and
preserving its external behavior, is gaining increasing acceptance among software …

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 …

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

Software systems that undergo repeated addition of functionality commonly suffer a loss of
quality in their underlying designs, termed design erosion. This leads to the maintenance of …

Refactoring, as a software engineering discipline has emerged over recent years to become
an important aspect of maintaining software. Refactoring refers to the restructuring of …

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

IntelliJ IDEA was one of the first Java IDEs to cross the Refactoring Rubicon [1], by
implementing the Extract Method refactoring for Java in early 2001. Since that time, IntelliJ …

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 …