A field study of refactoring challenges and benefits

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kim, Miryung ^a   Zimmermann, Thomas ^b   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

churn; component dependencies; defects; empirical study; refactoring; software evolution

Indexed keywords

CHURN; COMPONENT DEPENDENCIES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COSINE TRANSFORMS; DEFECTS; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84871317722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2393596.2393655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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