Over the years, researchers capitalized on the repetitiveness of software changes to
automate many software evolution tasks. Despite the extraordinary rise in popularity of …

Compared to other programming languages (eg, Java), Python has more idioms to make
Python code concise and efficient. Although pythonic idioms are well accepted in the Python …

Refactoring is the art of improving the internal structure of a program without altering its
external behavior, and it is an important task when it comes to software maintainability …

For example during software maintenance, it is often important to know the reason for a code
change and therefore tools are researched to automatically detect changes due to …

Software architecture is defined as the structural construction, design decisions
implementation, evolution and knowledge sharing mechanisms of a system. Software …

During software maintenance, it is often important to understand the reasons for code
changes, so tools are being developed to automatically detect changes due to refactoring …

Developers often refactor code to improve the maintainability and comprehension of the
software. There are many studies on refactoring activities in traditional software systems …

Cloning in software is generally perceived as a threat to its maintenance and that is why it
needs to be managed properly. Understanding clones from a historical perspective is …

Refactoring detection tools, such as RefactoringMiner and RefDiff, are helpful to study
refactorings applied to software repositories. To evaluate them, the tools' authors study …

Detecting refactorings in commit history is essential to improve the comprehension of code
changes in code reviews and to provide valuable information for empirical studies on …