Improving evolvability through refactoring

Proceedings of the 2005 International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ratzinger, Jacek ^a   Fischer, Michael ^a   Gall, Harald ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Change smells; Refactoring; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS;

CHANGE COUPLINGS; CHANGE DEPENDENCIES; CHANGE SMELLS; HISTORICAL DATA; INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTIONS;

ODORS;

EID: 85087225798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1083142.1083155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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