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 one of the most widely used techniques in practice to improve the quality of
existing software. However, it is observed that refactoring does not continually improve all …

Refactoring has emerged as a predominant approach to augmenting software product
quality. However, empirical evidence suggests that not all dimensions of software quality …

Recent research has shown that various refactoring methods have very diverse, often
opposing, and contradicting impacts on software quality characteristics. While using …

All successful software gets changed. Developers undertake software change tasks by
editing the software's source code to meet new demands. Often, the edits they make are …

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

As part of software change tasks, software developers frequently make repetitive and error-
prone code changes. Many of these changes can be automated by refactoring tools that are …

O desenvolvimento baseado em pull adequa-sea prática da Revisao de Código Moderna
(RCM), na qual os revisores podem sugerir melhorias de código, como refatoramentos, por …

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