Poorly designed software systems are difficult to understand and maintain. Modifying code in one place could lead to unwanted repercussions elsewhere due to high coupling. Adding ...
Martin Drozdz, Derrick G. Kourie, Bruce W. Watson,...
Refactoring, an important technique for increasing flexibility of the source code, can be applied with much ease and efficiency by using automated tools. There is currently a lack...
: We present our refactoring plug-ins for Eclipse’s Ruby Development Tools IDE. Refactoring is a very important technique for every software engineer and a cornerstone of agile s...
Software has been and is still mostly refactored without tool support. Moreover, as we found in our case studies, programmers tend not to document these changes as refactorings, o...
Refactorings change the internal structure of code without changing its external behavior. For non-trivial refactorings, the preservation of external behavior depends on semantic p...