In software development, maintaining good design is essential. The process of refactoring
enables developers to improve this design during development without altering the …

Refactoring code manually can be complex. Several refactoring tools were developed to
mitigate the effort needed to create more readable, adaptable, and maintainable code …

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 …

There are several challenges which should be kept in mind during the design and
development phases of a refactoring tool, and one is that developers have several …

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 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 …

Refactoring is a common software maintenance practice. The literature defines standard
code modifications for each refactoring type and popular IDEs provide refactoring tools …

Refactoring is an important technique to improve maintainability of software, and developers
often use this technique during a development process. Before now, researchers have …

Security is still a serious issue for many software systems. Even if software has the correct
security features in its initial implementation, recurring modifications (eg, refactoring) could …

Refactoring, the practice of applying behavior-preserving changes to existing code, can
enhance the quality of software systems. Refactoring tools can automatically perform and …