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 …

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 …

This position paper identifies emerging trends in refactoring research, and enumerates a list
of open questions, from a practical as well as a theoretical point of view. We suggest these …

Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance and is commonly applied to improve
system design or to cope with design defects. There are 68 different types of refactoring …

Modern code review is a common and essential practice employed in both industrial and
open-source projects to improve software quality, share knowledge, and ensure …

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 …

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 …

Although software developers typically have access to numerous refactoring tools, most
developers avoid using these tools despite their benefits. Researchers have identified many …

An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is performed by
developers, regardless of technology or domain, to improve the internal quality of the …

Despite the enormous success that manual and automated refactoring has enjoyed during
the last decade, we know little about the practice of refactoring. Understanding the …