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

Refactoring has been widely used to improve software design. Refactoring is applied when
a bad smell is detected. Several bad smells might be present in the code. In this paper, we …

It is very common in various fields that there is a gap between theoretical results and their
practical applications. This is true for code refactoring as well, which has a solid theoretical …

It is a fact that a lot of software is written by people without a formal education in software
engineering. As an example, material scientists often capture their knowledge in the form of …

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 …

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 …

Refactorings are-as defined by Fowler-behavior preserving source code transformations.
Their main purpose is to improve maintainability or comprehensibility, or also reduce the …

Refactoring aims at improving the maintainability of source code without modifying its
external behavior. Previous works proposed approaches to recommend refactoring …