Refactoring object-oriented frameworks
Refactoring object-oriented frameworks
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Extreme programming explained: embrace change
Extreme programming explained: embrace change
Finding refactorings via change metrics
OOPSLA '00 Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Metrics and Laws of Software Evolution - The Nineties View
METRICS '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Software Metrics
A Survey of Software Refactoring
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Detecting and Visualizing Refactorings from Software Archives
IWPC '05 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
A Change-based Approach to Software Evolution
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Gathering refactoring data: a comparison of four methods
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Refactoring Tools
Automated detection of refactorings in evolving components
ECOOP'06 Proceedings of the 20th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Identifying refactoring sequences for improving software maintainability
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
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Many iterative software development methodologies, such as for example eXtreme Programming, state that refactoring is one of the key activities to be undertaken in order to keep the code-base of a project well-structured and consistent. In such a context, poorly structured code may become a significant obstacle in adding new or in enhancing existing functionality. However, there is some anecdotal evidence that in many software projects, the underlying code-base is not necessarily refactored post-release, often due to time constraints or the misconception that refactoring does not add any apparent value. In order to get further insights into this problem area, we propose to investigate the usage frequency of refactorings in the context of open-source, object-oriented software systems. In this work, we will outline our approach to detecting refactoring and present results obtained from an initial pilot study.