Refactoring object-oriented frameworks
Refactoring object-oriented frameworks
An investigation into coupling measures for C++
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
A Unified Framework for Coupling Measurement in Object-Oriented Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Finding refactorings via change metrics
OOPSLA '00 Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Proceedings of the First JSSST International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software
A Survey of Software Refactoring
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
The Effectiveness of Refactoring, Based on a Compatibility Testing Taxonomy and a Dependency Graph
TAIC-PART '06 Proceedings of the Testing: Academic & Industrial Conference on Practice And Research Techniques
Common refactorings, a dependency graph and some code smells: an empirical study of Java OSS
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
Refactoring--Does It Improve Software Quality?
WoSQ '07 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Software Quality
Mining Software Evolution to Predict Refactoring
ESEM '07 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Software Structure Metrics Based on Information Flow
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Systematically refactoring inheritance to delegation in java
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Design Patterns and Change Proneness: A Replication Using Proprietary C# Software
WCRE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Is a strategy for code smell assessment long overdue?
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics
Template-based reconstruction of complex refactorings
ICSM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Comparison of similarity metrics for refactoring detection
Proceedings of the 8th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
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In theory, refactoring should reverse the trend in code decay and many studies have explored the different facets of refactoring (both its trends and characteristics). While much progress has been made in this area, a number of observations about refactoring studies have become evident to us over the past seven years in the time during which we have been undertaking empirical studies in this area. This paper outlines our experiences of the issues that arise with refactoring studies. We outline six of those issues, together forming the set of challenges that are still prevalent in this area. The purpose of the paper is thus to put under the spotlight the real potential benefits of refactoring, but more importantly the challenges that our experiences have raised