Refactorings change the internal structure of code without changing its external behavior. For non-trivial refactorings, the preservation of external behavior depends on semantic p...
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...
Refactoring of software systems represents an fundamental way of improving their quality properties. Large-scale refactoring has to be performed at an architectural level to execu...
We present Binary Refactoring: a software engineering technique for improving the implementation of programs without modifying their source code. While related to regular refactor...