A Survey of Software Refactoring
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Refactoring Tools: Fitness for Purpose
IEEE Software
Perspectives on automated correction of bad smells
Proceedings of the joint international and annual ERCIM workshops on Principles of software evolution (IWPSE) and software evolution (Evol) workshops
Toward refactoring in a polyglot world: extending automated refactoring support across Java and XML
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Refactoring Tools
Refactoring tools for dynamic languages
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Refactoring Tools
Semi-automatic rename refactoring for JavaScript
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages & applications
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Programmers often use forums, such as StackOverflow, to easily and quickly solve their issues. Researchers then investigate those questions to better understand the state-of-use of software engineering techniques. Also, due to the quality and the great number questions and answers, the results found using such method might be difficult, or even impossible, to find using common survey techniques. In this study, we conducted a qualitative and quantitative research in order to categorize questions about refactoring tools. As a result, we presented a comprehensive classification of flaws and desirable features in refactoring tools. We also reported that programmers do not often rely on refactoring tools, but, at the same time, they are desiring number of unimplemented features.