Refactorings are behavior-preserving program transformations that improve the design of a
program. Refactoring engines are tools that automate the application of refactorings: first the …

Refactoring is a transformation that preserves the external behavior of a program and
improves its internal quality. Usually, compilation errors and behavioral changes are …

Testing refactoring engines is a challenging problem that has gained recent attention in
research. Several techniques were proposed to automate generation of programs used as …

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

One of the important ways to make software soft,(ie, easy to change, reuse, and develop), is
to automate the various program transformations that occur as software evolves. Automating …

Refactoring engines are standard tools in today's Integrated Development Environments
(IDEs). They allow programmers to perform one refactoring at a time, but programmers need …

Refactoring is a popular technique for improving the structure of existing programs while
maintaining their behavior. For statically typed programming languages such as Java, a …

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 …

Since annotations were added to the Java language, many frameworks have moved to
using annotated Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) in their newest releases. Legacy …

It is widely believed that refactoring improves software quality and developer's productivity
by making it easier to maintain and understand software systems. On the other hand, some …