Seven habits of a highly effective smell detector
Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Recommendation systems for software engineering
How we refactor, and how we know it
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Gathering refactoring data: a comparison of four methods
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Refactoring Tools
An interactive ambient visualization for code smells
Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Software visualization
CodePad: interactive spaces for maintaining concentration in programming environments
Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Software visualization
Impact of refactoring on quality code evaluation
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Refactoring Tools
Representing clones in a localized manner
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Clones
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering
Automated behavioral testing of refactoring engines
Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Systems, programming, and applications: software for humanity
An Information Foraging Theory Perspective on Tools for Debugging, Refactoring, and Reuse Tasks
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Comparing approaches to analyze refactoring activity on software repositories
Journal of Systems and Software
Refactoring support for Smalltalk using static type inference
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies
Drag-and-drop refactoring: intuitive and efficient program transformation
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Why don't software developers use static analysis tools to find bugs?
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
The impact of tangled code changes
Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
What programmers say about refactoring tools?: an empirical investigation of stack overflow
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM workshop on Workshop on refactoring tools
Investigating the evolution of code smells in object-oriented systems
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
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Refactoring tools can improve the speed and accuracy with which developers create and maintain software—but only if they are used. In practice, tools are not used as much as they could be; this seems to be because sometimes they do not align with the refactoring tactic preferred by most programmers, a tactic the authors call "floss refactoring." They propose five principles that characterize successful floss-refactoring tools—principles that can help programmers to choose the most appropriate refactoring tools and also help toolsmiths to design tools that fit the programmer's purpose.