AntiPatterns: refactoring software, architectures, and projects in crisis
AntiPatterns: refactoring software, architectures, and projects in crisis
Automatic method refactoring using weighted dependence graphs
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
A Metric-Based Approach to Enhance Design Quality through Meta-pattern Transformations
CSMR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
A Survey of Software Refactoring
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Scale-free geometry in OO programs
Communications of the ACM - Adaptive complex enterprises
Diagnosing Design Problems in Object Oriented Systems
WCRE '05 Proceedings of the 12th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Search-Based Software Maintenance
CSMR '06 Proceedings of the Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Lightweight Detection of Program Refactorings
APSEC '05 Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Identifying refactoring opportunities by identifying dependency cycles
ACSC '06 Proceedings of the 29th Australasian Computer Science Conference - Volume 48
The CRSS metric for package design quality
ACSC '07 Proceedings of the thirtieth Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 62
Power-Laws in a Large Object-Oriented Software System
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Identification of Move Method Refactoring Opportunities
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A visualization method of program dependency graph for identifying extract method opportunity
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Refactoring Tools
Identification of extract method refactoring opportunities for the decomposition of methods
Journal of Systems and Software
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An intrinsic property of software in a real-world environment is its need to evolve, which is usually accompanied by the increase of software complexity and deterioration of software quality, making software maintenance a tough problem. Refactoring is regarded as an effective way to address this problem. Many refactoring approaches at the method and class level have been proposed. But the research on software refactoring at the package level is very little. This paper presents a novel approach to refactor the package structures of object oriented software. It uses software networks to represent classes and their dependencies. It proposes a constrained community detection algorithm to obtain the optimized community structures in software networks, which also correspond to the optimized package structures. And it finally provides a list of classes as refactoring candidates by comparing the optimized package structures with the real package structures. The empirical evaluation of the proposed approach has been performed in two open source Java projects, and the benefits of our approach are illustrated in comparison with the other three approaches.