Developers frequently change the type of a program element and update all its references
for performance, security, concurrency, library migration, or better maintainability. Despite …

Like any other type of software, also Web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) evolve
over time. In the case of widely used API, introducing changes is never a trivial task …

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 refactoring is a key feature of modern IDEs. Existing refactorings rely on the
transformation of source code declarations, in which references may also be transformed as …

The fast evolution pace for cloud computing software is on a collision course with our
growing reliance on cloud computing. On one hand, cloud software must have the agility to …

Refactoring is an essential activity during software evolution. Frequently, practitioners rely
on such transformations to improve source code maintainability and quality. As a …

With the popularity of the Python language, com-munity developers create and maintain a lot
of third-party packages. APIs change frequently during the package evolving. Package …

In consequence of changing requirements and technological progress, software languages
are subject to change. The changes affect the language's specification, which in turn affects …

Today numerous software systems are being developed on top of frameworks. In this study,
we analyzed the survival of 467 Eclipse third-party plug-ins altogether having 1,447 …

Context Refactoring is recognized as an effective practice to maintain evolving software
systems. For software libraries, we study how library developers refactor their Application …