Improving software security using search-based refactoring
SSBSE'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Search Based Software Engineering
A roadmap for software maintainability measurement
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
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Refactoring focuses on improving the reusability, maintainability and performance of programs. However, the impact of refactoring on the security of a given program has received little attention. In this work, we focus on the design of object-oriented applications and use metrics to assess the impact of a number of standard refactoring rules on their security by evaluating the metrics before and after refactoring. This assessment tells us which refactoring steps can increase the security level of a given program from the point of view of potential information flow, allowing application designers to improve their system's security at an early stage.