"Refactoring"

How Do I Refactor This? An Empirical Study on Refactoring Trends and Topics in Stack Overflow
An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is performed by developers, regardless of technology or domain, to …
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Using Grammar Patterns to Interpret Test Method Name Evolution
It is good practice to name test methods such that they are comprehensible to developers; they must be written in such a way that their …
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Contextualizing rename decisions using refactorings, commit messages, and data types
Identifier names are the atoms of program comprehension. Weak identifier names decrease developer productivity and degrade the …
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An Exploratory Study on the Refactoring of Unit Test Files in Android Applications
An essential activity of software maintenance is the refactoring of source code. Refactoring operations enable developers to take …
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Contextualizing Rename Decisions using Refactorings and Commit Messages
Identifier names are the atoms of comprehension; weak identifier names decrease productivity by increasing the chance that developers …
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Modeling the Relationship Between Identifier Name and Behavior
This paper presents the features of a model that relates the natural language found in identifiers with program semantics. The model …
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Towards a Model to Appraise and Suggest Identifier Names
Unknowingly, identifiers in the source code of a software system play a vital role in determining the quality of the system. Ambiguous …
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An Empirical Investigation of How and Why Developers Rename Identifiers
Renaming is vital to software maintenance and evolution. Developers rename entities when their original names no longer fit their …
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