Bad smells are symptoms that something may be wrong in the system design or code. There
are many bad smells defined in the literature and detecting them is far from trivial. Therefore …

Context Identifying refactoring opportunities in object-oriented code is an important stage
that precedes the actual refactoring process. Several techniques have been proposed in the …

Software refactoring is a maintenance task that addresses code restructuring to improve its
quality. Many studies have addressed the impact of different refactoring scenarios on …

Excessively long methods, loaded with multiple responsibilities, are challenging to
understand, debug, reuse, and maintain. The solution lies in the widely recognized Extract …

Context: Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance, and is usually performed to
enforce better design and coding practices, while co** with design defects. The Extract …

Long methods that encapsulate multiple responsibilities within a single method are
challenging to maintain. Choosing which statements to extract into new methods has been …

Extract Method'is considered one of the most frequently applied and beneficial refactorings,
since the corresponding Long Method smell is among the most common and persistent …

Excessively long methods that encapsulate multiple responsibilities within a single method
are challenging to comprehend, debug, reuse, and maintain. The solution to this problem, a …

With the goal of increasing program readability for easier understanding, coding guidelines
often include formatting standards such as indenting loop and conditional branch body …

Extract method refactoring identifies and extracts a set of statements implementing a specific
functionality within a method. Its application enhances the structure of code and provides …