Empirical evaluation of the impact of object-oriented code refactoring on quality attributes: A systematic literature review

J Al Dallal, A Abdin - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

A systematic literature survey of software metrics, code smells and refactoring techniques

M Agnihotri, A Chug - Journal of Information Processing Systems, 2020 - koreascience.kr
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 …

When and why your code starts to smell bad (and whether the smells go away)

M Tufano, F Palomba, G Bavota… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technical debt is a metaphor introduced by Cunningham to indicate “not quite right code
which we postpone making it right”. One noticeable symptom of technical debt is …

How we refactor, and how we know it

E Murphy-Hill, C Parnin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

An experimental investigation on the innate relationship between quality and refactoring

G Bavota, A De Lucia, M Di Penta, R Oliveto… - Journal of Systems and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Previous studies have investigated the reasons behind refactoring operations performed by
developers, and proposed methods and tools to recommend refactorings based on quality …

How we refactor and how we document it? On the use of supervised machine learning algorithms to classify refactoring documentation

EA AlOmar, A Peruma, MW Mkaouer… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
Refactoring is the art of improving the structural design of a software system without altering
its external behavior. Today, refactoring has become a well-established and disciplined …

On the impact of refactoring on the relationship between quality attributes and design metrics

EA AlOmar, MW Mkaouer, A Ouni… - 2019 ACM/IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Toward the automatic classification of self-affirmed refactoring

EA AlOmar, MW Mkaouer, A Ouni - Journal of Systems and Software, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The concept of Self-Affirmed Refactoring (SAR) was introduced to explore how
developers document their refactoring activities in commit messages, ie, developers explicit …

On the documentation of refactoring types

EA AlOmar, J Liu, K Addo, MW Mkaouer… - Automated Software …, 2022 - Springer
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 …

Can refactoring be self-affirmed? an exploratory study on how developers document their refactoring activities in commit messages

E AlOmar, MW Mkaouer, A Ouni - 2019 IEEE/ACM 3rd …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance and is usually performed to enforce
best design practices, or to cope with design defects. Previous studies heavily rely on …