An Empirical Study on Refactoring Activity

An Empirical Study on Refactoring Activity

This paper reports an empirical study on refactoring activity in three Java software systems. We investigated some questions on refactoring activity, to confirm or disagree on conclusions that have been drawn from previous empirical studies. Unlike previous empirical studies, our study found that it...

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Hauptverfasser: Hoque, Mohammad Iftekharul, Vijay Nag Ranga, Anurag Reddy Pedditi, Rachitha Srinath, Md Ali Ahsan Rana, Islam, Md Eftakhairul, Somani, Afshin
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