The manual development of large knowledge systems is a difficult and error-prone task. In order to facilitate extensions to an existing knowledge base the structural design of the...
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...
Up to 75% of the costs associated with the development of software systems occur post-deployment during maintenance and evolution. Software refactoring is a process which can sign...
: In agile software development refactoring is an important phase for the continuous improvement of software quality. Unfortunately, the application of refactorings is very subject...
Refactoring, in spite of widely acknowledged as one of the best practices of object-oriented design and programming, still lacks quantitative grounds and efficient tools for tasks...