Search-based refactoring detection from source code revisions

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E93-D, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 754-762

  Hayashi, Shinpei ^a   Tsuda, Yasuyuki ^a,b   Saeki, Motoshi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Informed search; Refactoring; Source code differences; Version archives

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

HEURISTICS; INFORMED SEARCH; REFACTORINGS; SOURCE CODES; VERSION ARCHIVES;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 77952352884     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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