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

Context Software refactoring aims to improve software quality and developer productivity.
Numerous empirical studies investigating the impact of refactoring activities on software …

Maintainability assurance techniques are used to control this quality attribute and limit the
accumulation of potentially unknown technical debt. Since the industry state of practice and …

Affective software engineering deals in exploring and understanding the developers'
sentiments associated with specific software development tasks with the goal to unleash …

Inspection of code changes is a time-consuming task that constitutes a big part of everyday
work of software engineers. Existing IDEs provide little information about the semantics of …

Refactoring aims at improving software design quality without affecting external behavior. It
is commonly believed that refactoring operations always enhance the software quality …

Technical debt (TD) happens when project teams carry out technical decisions in favor of a
short-term goal (s) in their projects, whether deliberately or unknowingly. TD must be …

Most of the developers in the software industry though have some instinctive capacity to
refactor but the true expertise of this skill is rarely found in real time software development …

Developers frequently undertake software change tasks that could be partially or fully
automated by refactoring tools. As has been reported by others, all too often, these …

Refactoring has been defined as improving code quality without affecting its functionality.
When refactoring is overlooked in daily development, the likelihood of larger refactorings …