Test smells have been defined as poorly designed tests and, as reported by recent empirical
studies, their presence may negatively affect comprehension and maintenance of test suites …

Code refactorings are of pivotal importance in modern code review. Developers may
preserve, revisit, add or undo refactorings through changes' revisions. Their goal is to certify …

Supervised learning-based code smell detection has become one of the dominant
approaches to identify code smell. Existing works optimize the process of code smell …

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 …

The adoption of refactoring techniques for continuous integration received much less
attention from the research community comparing to root-canal refactoring to fix the quality …

Context Refactoring is a technique for improving the internal structure of software systems. It
has a solid theoretical background while being used in development practice also. However …

Software energy efficiency has gained increasing attention of the research community. How
to improve it, however, still lacks evidence. Specifically, the impact of code smell refactoring …

It is critical for developers to develop high-quality software to reduce maintenance cost.
While often, developers apply refactoring practices to make source code readable and …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices, which might hinder
comprehension, increase code complexity and fault-proneness and decrease …

Program refactoring consists of code changes applied to improve the internal structure of a
program and, as a consequence, its comprehensibility. Recent studies indicate that …