Finding refactorings via change metrics

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 166-177

  Demeyer, Serge ^a   Ducasse, Stéphane ^b   Nierstrasz, Oscar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Metrics; Object oriented frameworks; Refactoring; Reverse engineering; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 17944381517     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/354222.353183     Document Type: Article

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