When does a refactoring induce bugs? An empirical study

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 12th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 104-113

  Bavota, Gabriele ^a   De Carluccio, Bernardino ^a   De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^b   Oliveto, Rocco ^c   Strollo, Orazio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Empirical Studies; Fault inducing changes; Mining software repositories; Refactoring

Indexed keywords

CODE INSPECTIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FAULT-INDUCING CHANGES; JAVA SOFTWARE; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; PULL UP; REFACTORINGS; SIMPLE OPERATION; SOURCE CODE TRANSFORMATION;

COSINE TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 84872281554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2012.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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