Refactoring restructures a program to improve its structure without altering its behavior.
However, it is challenging to preserve the domain semantics of a program when refactoring …

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 …

Automated refactoring tools are an essential part of a software developer's toolbox. They are
most useful for gradually improving large existing code bases and it is essential that they …

Refactoring is the de-facto practice to optimize software health. While several studies
propose refactoring strategies to optimize software design through applying design patterns …

Refactoring tools, common to many integrated development environments, can help
programmers to restructure their code. These tools sometimes refuse to restructure 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 …

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 a form of program transformation which preserves the semantics of the
program. Refactoring frameworks for object-oriented programs were first introduced in 1992 …

Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring code to improve its readability and
maintainability. Almost all modern integrated development environments (IDEs) offer built-in …

Software refactoring was independently invented in the late'80s by two students in two
research groups: Ralph Johnson's group at the University of Illinois and David Notkin's …