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 …

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 …

This short paper is a summary of my doctoral research, which was conducted under Oege
de Moor's supervision at the University of Oxford, starting October 2001. The thesis was …

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 …

Automated refactorings may change the program behavior. We propose an approach and its
implementation called SafeRefactor for making program refactoring safer. We applied 10 …

Software refactoring aims at improving code quality while preserving the system's external
behavior. Although in principle refactoring is a behavior-preserving activity, a study …

Several tools for detecting refactorings in the code exist and have been evaluated in the
literature. However, we found that the benchmarks used for the evaluation so far are …

Software refactoring is a technique that transforms the various types of software artifacts to
improve the software internal structure without affecting the external behavior. Refactoring is …

Due to the growing complexity of software systems, there has been a dramatic increase and
industry demand for tools and techniques on software refactoring in the last ten years …

Those of us who seek to build better refactoring tools need empirical data collected from real
refactoring sessions. The literature reports on different methods for capturing this data, but …