Refactoring and smells have been well researched by the software-engineering research
community these past decades. Several secondary studies have been published on code …

While functionality and correctness of code has traditionally been the main focus of
computing educators, quality aspects of code are getting increasingly more attention. High …

Refactoring is the practice of improving software quality without altering its external
behavior. Developers intuitively refactor their code for multiple purposes, such as improving …

While software refactoring is considered important to manage software complexity, it is often
perceived as difficult and risky by software developers and thus neglected in practice. In this …

Software design issues can severely impede software development and maintenance. Thus,
it is important for the success of software projects that developers are aware of bad smells in …

Catalogs of refactoring have key importance in software maintenance and evolution, since
developers rely on such documents to understand and perform refactoring operations …

Long-living software systems are becoming increasingly complex and difficult to maintain.
Software refactoring is considered important to achieve maintainability and extensibility of a …

Although considered useful and important, software refactoring is often neglected in practice
because of the perceived risks and difficulties of performing it. A way to address these …

Software refactoring is an activity aimed at improving the quality of the source code of a
software system. However, tools are required that facilitate the learning of different software …

While most student code is assessed for correctness and functionality, recent work has
looked at extending automatic assessment to include quality aspects. In software …