Refactoring Techniques for Improving Software Quality: Practitioners’ Perspectives
Journal of ICT, 2021 Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance and is commonly applied to improve system design or to cope with design defects. There are 68 different types of refactoring techniques and each technique has a particular purpose and effect. However,
Abdullah Almogahed, Mazni Omar
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Optimized Refactoring Mechanisms to Improve Quality Characteristics in Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Access, 2023 Refactoring has emerged as a predominant approach to augmenting software product quality. However, empirical evidence suggests that not all dimensions of software quality experience unending enhancements through refactoring.
Abdullah Almogahed +5 more
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A model transformation approach to perform refactoring on software architecture using refactoring patterns based on stakeholder requirements [PDF]
AUT Journal of Mathematics and Computing, 2020 Software Architecture (SA) generally has a considerable influence on software quality attributes. Coordination of software architecture to the requirements of the stakeholders and avoiding common mistakes and faults in designing SA increases the chance ...
Mohammad Tanhaei
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A Refactoring Classification Framework for Efficient Software Maintenance
IEEE Access, 2023 The expenses associated with software maintenance and evolution constitute a significant portion, surpassing more than 80% of the overall costs involved in software development.
Abdullah Almogahed +8 more
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Mining commit messages to enhance software refactorings recommendation: A machine learning approach
Machine Learning with Applications, 2022 Software refactoring is the common practice that is applied to improve the internal structure of software systems without altering their external behaviors.
Ally S. Nyamawe
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Software restructuring models for object oriented programming languages using the fuzzy based clustering algorithm [PDF]
Научно-технический вестник информационных технологий, механики и оптики, 2021 Advances in the domain of software-based technology pave the way for widespread use of object-oriented programs. There is a need to develop a well-established software system that will reduce maintenance costs and enhance the usability of the component ...
Sarika Bobde, Rashmi Phalnikar
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What Refactoring Topics Do Developers Discuss? A Large Scale Empirical Study Using Stack Overflow
IEEE Access, 2022 Due to the growing complexity of software systems, there has been a dramatic increase in research and industry demand on refactoring. Refactoring research nowadays addresses challenges beyond code transformation to include, but not limited to, scheduling
Chaima Abid +3 more
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Refactoring Legacy Software for Layer Separation
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 2021 One of the main aims in the layered software architecture is to divide the code into different layers so that each layer contains related modules and serves its upper layers. Although layered software architecture is matured now; many legacy information systems do not benefit from the advantages of this architecture and their code for the process ...
Alireza Khalilipour +4 more
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Tool Refactoring Otomatis untuk Menangani Lazy Class Code Smell dengan Pendekatan Software Metrics
Jurnal Teknologi Informasi dan Ilmu Komputer, 2022 Keberadaan lazy class sebagai code smell dapat meningkatkan jumlah class yang tidak begitu perlu pada perangkat lunak, sehingga meningkatkan biaya pemeliharaan dari segi waktu dan usaha.
Umi Sa'adah +7 more
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BoneJ2 - refactoring established research software [PDF]
Wellcome Open Research, 2021 Research software is often developed with expedience as a core development objective because experimental results, but not the software, are specified and resourced as a project output. While such code can help find answers to specific research questions, it may lack longevity and flexibility to make it reusable.
Richard Domander +2 more
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