Refactoring detection is crucial for a variety of applications and tasks:(i) empirical studies
about code evolution,(ii) tools for library API migration,(iii) code reviews and change …

Software refactoring is a process to restructure an existing software code while keeping its
external behavior the same. Currently, various refactoring techniques are being used to …

While some areas of software engineering knowledge present great advances with respect
to the automation of processes, tools, and practices, areas such as software maintenance …

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

Software design is an important concern in modern code review through which multiple
developers actively discuss and improve each single code change. However, there is little …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Long Method is amongst the most common code smells in software systems. Despite
various attempts to detect the long method code smell, few automated approaches are …

Software refactoring is the activity associated with developers changing the internal structure
of source code without modifying its external behavior. The literature argues that refactoring …