Refactoring is a software maintenance technique that involves the systematic modification of a program's internal structure to improve its design, readability, or efficiency without altering its external behavior.
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Refactoring improving the design of existing code
Mauricio A. Saca · 2017 · 2.1K citations
A survey of software refactoring
Tom Mens, Tom Tourwé · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2004 · 1.2K citations · Full text
Refactoring object-oriented frameworks
William F. Opdyke · 1992 · 1K citations
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