Background: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a lightweight alternative to traditional code
inspections. While secondary studies on MCR exist, it is ua nknown whether the research …

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

Large Language Models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, have gained widespread popularity and
usage in various software engineering tasks, including refactoring, testing, code review, and …

Despite the availability of refactoring as a feature in popular IDEs, recent studies revealed
that developers are reluctant to use them, and still prefer the manual refactoring of their …

Commit messages are the atomic level of software documentation. They provide a natural
language description of the code change and its purpose. Messages are critical for software …

Refactoring tools have advanced greatly and are being used in many large projects. As a
result, a great deal of information is now available about past refactoring and its effects on …

Modern code review is a widely used technique employed in both industrial and open-
source projects to improve software quality, share knowledge, and ensure adherence to …

Refactoring, the process of improving the internal code structure of a software system
without altering its external behavior, is widely applied during software development …