Extracting refactoring trends from open-source software and a possible solution to the 'related refactoring' conundrum

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1713-1720

  Advani, Deepak ^a   Hassoun, Youssef ^a   Counsell, Steve ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dependencies; Empirical analysis; Object oriented; Refactoring; Tool

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; OPEN-SOURCE SYSTEMS; REFACTORING;

DATA PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33751054798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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