ESEM
2007
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
2007
ACM
Can we predict locations of future refactoring based on the development history? In an empirical study of open source projects we found that attributes of software evolution data ...
COMPSAC
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
During software development and evolution activities, the developers focus the refactoring efforts on choosing and applying refactoring patterns (or sequences of patterns) that ar...
CSMR
2006
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2006
IEEE
The high cost of software maintenance could potentially be greatly reduced by the automatic refactoring of object-oriented programs to increase their understandability, adaptabili...
ASWEC
2008
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
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...
ECOOP
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
Modern integrated development environments, such as ECLIPSE, provide automated or semi-automated refactoring support. Despite this support, refactorings are often done manually --...
ECOOP
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
Current refactoring tools work on a particular language. Each time it is intended to provide refactoring support for new languages, the same refactoring operations are defined and...
ECOOP
2007
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Springer
Refactoring is not only useful for source code of implementations, but as well for test specifications. The open source TRex tool automates the application of refactorings and the ...
ECLIPSE
2007
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2007
ACM
In Eclipse, and in most other development environments, refactorings are activated by selecting code, then using a menu or hotkey, and finally engaging in a dialog with a "wi...
KBSE
1999
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1999
IEEE
Refactorings are behavior-preserving program transformations that automate design evolution in object-oriented applications. Three kinds of design evolution are: schema transformat...
ECOOPW
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
1999
Springer
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, ...