Gathering refactoring data: A comparison of four methods

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Refactoring Tools, WRT '08, in conjunction with the Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications, OOPSLA 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Murphy Hill, Emerson ^a   Black, Andrew P ^a   Dig, Danny ^b   Parnin, Chris ^c  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical software engineering; Methodology; Refactoring; Research

Indexed keywords

DATA CAPTURE; DATA COLLECTION; EMPIRICAL DATA; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; METHODOLOGY; REFACTORING TOOLS; REFACTORINGS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; EXPERIMENTS; LINGUISTICS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 72249107521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1636642.1636649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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