Identification of extract method refactoring opportunities for the decomposition of methods

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1757-1782

  Tsantalis, Nikolaos ^a   Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Extract Method refactoring; Module decomposition; Program slicing

Indexed keywords

CODE FRAGMENTS; CODE QUALITY; CODE TRANSFORMATION; COMPLEX METHODS; DESIGN FLAWS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; MODULE DECOMPOSITION; PRECISION AND RECALL; PROGRAM BEHAVIOR; PROGRAM SLICING; REFACTORINGS; SET OF RULES;

COSINE TRANSFORMS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79960834318     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.05.016     Document Type: Article

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