RePOR: Mimicking humans on refactoring tasks. Are we there yet?

Refactoring is a maintenance activity that aims to improve design quality while preserving the behavior of a system. Several (semi)automated approaches have been proposed to support developers in this maintenance activity, based on the correction of anti-patterns, which are “poor” solutions to recur...

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Published in:	Empirical software engineering : an international journal Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 2960 - 2996
Main Authors:	Morales, Rodrigo, Khomh, Foutse, Antoniol, Giuliano
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer US 01.07.2020 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Automation Compilers Computer Science Human performance Interpreters Maintenance Programming Languages Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems Taskload Program Comprehension Anti-patterns Software maintenance Empirical software engineering studies Refactoring
ISSN:	1382-3256, 1573-7616
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