Refactoring and smells have been well researched by the software-engineering research
community these past decades. Several secondary studies have been published on code …

Researchers have recently achieved significant advances in deep learning techniques,
which in turn has substantially advanced other research disciplines, such as natural …

Code smells are structures in the source code that suggest the possibility of refactorings.
Consequently, developers may identify refactoring opportunities by detecting code smells …

Background: Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance and is generally
performed to enforce the best design and implementation practices or to cope with design …

Software refactoring is widely employed to improve software quality. A key step in software
refactoring is to identify which part of the software should be refactored. To facilitate the …

Software refactoring is a process to restructure an existing software code while kee** its
external behavior the same. Currently, various refactoring techniques are being used to …

Background: Code refactoring aims to improve code structures via code transformations. A
single transformation rarely suffices to fully remove code smells that reveal poor code …