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 …

The test code, just like production source code, is subject to bad design and programming
practices, also known as smells. The presence of test smells in a software project may affect …

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 …

Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance and is usually performed to enforce
best design practices, or to cope with design defects. Previous studies heavily rely on …

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 …

More than 70% of characters in the source code are used to label identifiers. Consequently,
identifiers are one of the most important source for program comprehension. Meaningful …

Identifiers make up a majority of the text in code. They are one of the most basic mediums
through which developers describe the code they create and understand the code that …

This paper presents an ensemble part-of-speech tagging approach for source code
identifiers. Ensemble tagging is a technique that uses machine-learning and the output from …