Software vulnerabilities are weaknesses in source code that can be potentially exploited to
cause loss or harm. While researchers have been devising a number of methods to deal …

Background: Code refactoring is widely recognized as an essential software engineering
practice to improve the understandability and maintainability of the source code. The Extract …

Software refactoring is the activity associated with developers changing the internal structure
of source code without modifying its external behavior. The literature argues that refactoring …

Refactoring aims at improving the maintainability of source code without modifying its
external behavior. Previous works proposed approaches to recommend refactoring …

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 …

Refactoring is one of the most widely used techniques in practice to improve the quality of
software, such as maintainability, testability, and understandability. However, there is a lack …

Software refactoring is a behavior-preserving activity to improve the source code quality
without changing its external behavior. Unfortunately, it is often a manual and error-prone …

Security metrics for software products give a quantifiable assessment of a software system's
trustworthiness. Metrics can also help detect vulnerabilities in systems, prioritize corrective …

Code review is a key development practice that contributes to improve software quality and
to foster knowledge sharing among developers. However, code review usually takes time …

Refactoring is a key software development practice that seeks to improve the internal
structure of the code without changing its external behavior. In this way, the identification of …