—In the multicore era, a major programming task will be to make programs more parallel. This is tedious because it requires changing many lines of code, and it is error-prone and...
Refactoring is a key element of many agile software development methods. While most developers associate small design changes with the term refactoring (as described by Martin Fowl...
We demonstrate a new approach to refactoring which involves the decomposition of familiar high-level refactorings such as Extract method into their components. By understanding al...
A well-known bad code smell in refactoring and software maintenance is duplicated code, or code clones. A code clone is a code fragment that is identical or similar to another. Un...
Code duplication is an important problem in application maintenance. Tools exist that support code duplication detection. However, few of them propose a solution for the problem, ...