Toward Understanding the Impact of Refactoring on Program Comprehension

Software refactoring is the activity associated with developers changing the internal structure of source code without modifying its external behavior. The literature argues that refactoring might have beneficial and harmful implications for software maintainability, primarily when performed without...

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Published in:	2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) pp. 731 - 742
Main Authors:	Sellitto, Giulia, Iannone, Emanuele, Codabux, Zadia, Lenarduzzi, Valentina, De Lucia, Andrea, Palomba, Fabio, Ferrucci, Filomena
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 01.03.2022
Subjects:	Behavioral sciences Codes Computational modeling Conferences Data mining Empirical Software Engineering Measurement Program Comprehension Program Readability Readability metrics Software Refactoring
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