Context: Refactoring is the art of modifying the design of a system without altering its
behavior. The idea is to reorganize variables, classes and methods to facilitate their future …

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 …

Refactoring is the art of improving the structural design of a software system without altering
its external behavior. Today, refactoring has become a well-established and disciplined …

Abstract The concept of Self-Affirmed Refactoring (SAR) was introduced to explore how
developers document their refactoring activities in commit messages, ie, developers explicit …

Commit messages are the atomic level of software documentation. They provide a natural
language description of the code change and its purpose. Messages are critical for software …

Background: Code refactoring is widely recognized as an essential software engineering
practice to improve the understandability and maintainability of the source code. The Extract …

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 …

Despite the availability of refactoring as a feature in popular IDEs, recent studies revealed
that developers are reluctant to use them, and still prefer the manual refactoring of their …

Refactoring is widely recognized as one of the efficient techniques to manage technical debt
and maintain a healthy software project through enforcing best design practices, or coping …

Context Code refactoring was conceived for enhancing code structures, often in terms of
internal quality attributes such as cohesion and coupling. Developers may have to apply …