The idea for this book arose from a series of lectures on modern programming paradigms,
feature-oriented programming, and software product lines that are continuously held at the …

Refactoring is a widespread practice that helps developers to improve the maintainability
and readability of their code. However, there is a limited number of studies empirically …

Background: Code refactoring is widely recognized as an essential software engineering
practice to improve the understandability and maintainability of the source code. The Extract …

Refactoring is widely practiced by developers, and considerable research and development
effort has been invested in refactoring tools. However, little has been reported about the …

Source code written in textual programming languages is typically edited in integrated
development environments (IDEs) or specialized code editors. These tools often display …

Despite the enormous success that manual and automated refactoring has enjoyed during
the last decade, we know little about the practice of refactoring. Understanding the …

During software maintenance and evolution the internal structure of the software system
undergoes continuous changes. These modifications drift the source code away from its …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has achieved significant advancements in technology and research
with the development over several decades, and is widely used in many areas including …

Refactoring is the process of changing software's structure while preserving its external
behavior. Refactoring tools can improve the speed and accuracy with which developers …

Successful software products evolve through a process of continual change. However, this
process may weaken the design of the software and make it unnecessarily complex, leading …