Drivers for software refactoring decisions

ISESE'06 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 297-306

  Mäntylä, Mika V ^a   Lassenius, Casper ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Code smells; Evolvability; Maintainability; Qualitative analysis; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; EVOLVABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE REFACTORING;

CODES (SYMBOLS); JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MAINTAINABILITY; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STUDENTS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247331422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1159733.1159778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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