Refactoring, an important technique for increasing flexibility of the source code, can be applied with much ease and efficiency by using automated tools. There is currently a lack...
Refactoring is a set of operations to improve maintainability or understandability or other attributes of a software system without changing the external behavior of it, and it is...
Current refactoring tools only provide support for performing selected refactorings. We show how tool support can be provided for the preparatory phases of refactoring as well, by...
Post-deployment maintenance and evolution can account for up to 75% of the cost of developing a software system. Software refactoring can reduce the costs associated with evolutio...
Erica Mealy, David A. Carrington, Paul A. Strooper...
Refactoring aims to improve the quality of a software systems’ structure, which tends to degrade as the system evolves. While manually determining useful refactorings can be cha...