Enhancing Recommendations of Composite Refactorings based on the Practice

• Published in: Proceedings / IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation pp. 83 - 93
• Main Authors: Bibiano, Ana Carla, Coutinho, Daniel, Uchoa, Anderson, Assuncao, Wesley K. G., Garcia, Alessandro, de Mello, Rafael, Colanzi, Thelma E., Tenorio, Daniel, Vasconcelos, Audrey, Fonseca, Baldoino, Ribeiro, Marcio
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 07.10.2024
• Subjects: code smells; Codes; Feature extraction; Maintenance; mining software repositories; refactoring recommendations; Software; software refactoring; Source coding

Refactoring is a non-trivial maintenance activity. Developers spend time and effort refactoring code to remove structural problems, i.e., code smells. Recent studies indicated that developers often apply composite refactoring (composite, for short), i.e., two or more interrelated refactorings. Howev...