Refactoring is the de-facto practice to optimize software health. While several studies
propose refactoring strategies to optimize software design through applying design patterns …

Modern code review is a widely used technique employed in both industrial and open-
source projects to improve software quality, share knowledge, and ensure adherence to …

Understanding how developers refactor their code is critical to support the design
improvement process of software. This paper investigates to what extent code metrics are …

Refactoring is a maintenance task that aims at enhancing the quality of a software's source
code by restructuring it without affecting the external behavior. Move method refactoring …

Bug-related research, eg, fault localization, program repair, and software testing, relies
heavily on high-quality and large-scale software bug repositories. The importance of such …

Context: Mobile applications have to continuously evolve in order to meet new user
requirements and technological changes. Addressing these constraints may lead to poor …

The rapid growth of the mobile applications development industry raises several new
challenges to developers as they need to respond quickly to the users' needs in a world of …

Android applications must evolve quickly to meet new user requirements, to facilitate bug
fixing or to adapt to technological changes. This evolution can lead to various software …

Causal inference is a study of causal relationships between events and the statistical study
of inferring these relationships through interventions and other statistical techniques. Causal …

Lousy design and development methods in software systems are well-known concepts in
the field of object-oriented software engineering known as “code smells.” New kinds of code …