Modern code review is a widely used technique employed in both industrial and open-
source projects to improve software quality, share knowledge, and ensure adherence to …

Code refactorings are of pivotal importance in modern code review. Developers may
preserve, revisit, add or undo refactorings through changes' revisions. Their goal is to certify …

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 …

Modern Code Review (MCR) demands enhancements in the way change logs are
presented to reviewers. Their task benefits from higher-level descriptions about the intention …

Context The purpose of software restructuring, or refactoring, is to improve software quality
and developer productivity. Objective Prior studies have relied mainly on static and dynamic …

Software developers review changes to a code base to prevent new bugs from being
introduced. However, some parts of a change are more likely to introduce bugs than others …

Refactoring aims at improving code non-functional attributes without modifying its external
behavior. Previous studies investigated the motivations behind refactoring by surveying …

Manual refactoring edits are error prone, as refactoring requires developers to coordinate
related transformations and understand the complex inter-relationship between affected …

Refactoring is a well-established practice that aims at improving the internal structure of a
software system without changing its external behavior. Existing literature provides evidence …

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 …