On the impact of refactoring operations on code quality metrics

Proceedings - 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 456-460

  Chaparro, Oscar ^a   Bavota, Gabriele ^b   Marcus, Andrian ^a   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Code Quality; Refactoring Impact

Indexed keywords

COSINE TRANSFORMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

CODE QUALITY; METRIC VALUES; OPEN SOURCE SYSTEM; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOURCE CODE QUALITIES; SOURCE CODE TRANSFORMATION; TOOL SUPPORT;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84931058154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSME.2014.73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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