Refactoring is one of the most widely used techniques in practice to improve the quality of
existing software. However, it is observed that refactoring does not continually improve all …

Refactoring is a maintenance task that aims at enhancing the quality of a software's source
code by restructuring it without affecting the external behavior. Move method refactoring …

During software maintenance, software systems need to be modified by adding or modifying
source code. These changes are required to fix errors or adopt new requirements raised by …

Background: Owing to the benefits of software refactoring, the software industry started
adopting this practice in the maintenance phase as a means to improve developer's …

Introduction: Identifying code segments in large and complex systems in need of refactoring
is non-trivial for software developers. Our research aim is to develop recommendation …

Background: Refactoring is changing a software system without affecting the software
functionality. The current researchers aim i to identify the appropriate method (s) or class (s) …

Software refactoring is a software maintenance action to improve the software internal
quality without changing its external behavior. During the maintenance process, structural …

Improving maintainability by refactoring is essentially being considered as one of the
important aspect of software development. For large and complex systems, identification of …

Refactoring, which aims to improve the internal structure of the software systems preserving
their behavior, is the most common payment strategy for technical debt (TD) by removing the …

The performance and applicability of a fault-proneness prediction model built based on
internal quality measures computed on classes of one or more software systems and …