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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Context: To find the best sequence of refactorings to be applied in a software artifact is an
optimization problem that can be solved using search techniques, in the field called Search …

One of the widely used techniques to improve the quality of software systems is refactoring.
Software refactoring improves the internal structure of the system while preserving its …

Software refactoring is a collection of reengineering activities that aims to improve software
quality. Refactorings are commonly used in agile software processes to improve software …