This paper presents a systematic literature review of deep learning (DL)-based software
refactoring, which involves restructuring and simplifying code without altering its external …

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

Context: Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance, and is usually performed to
enforce better design and coding practices, while coping with design defects. The Extract …

Refactoring is an indispensable practice of improving the quality and maintainability of
source code in software evolution. Rename refactoring is the most frequently performed …

In software development and maintenance, code comments can help developers
understand source code and improve communication among developers. However …

Refactoring is the practice of improving software quality without altering its external
behavior. Developers intuitively refactor their code for multiple purposes, such as improving …

Extract local variable is a well-known and widely used refactoring. It is frequently employed
to replace one or more occurrences of a complex expression with simple accesses to a …

Catalogs of refactoring have key importance in software maintenance and evolution, since
developers rely on such documents to understand and perform refactoring operations …

As software continues to evolve and business functions become increasingly complex,
architectural inconsistency arises when the implementation architecture deviates from the …

We aim to explore how developers document their refactoring activities during the software
life cycle. We call such activity Self-Affirmed Refactoring (SAR), which indicates developers' …