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Refactoring Operations

Refactoring Operations is a formal method in software engineering that systematically transforms a software system's internal structure without altering its external behavior, distinguished by its adherence to predefined, behavior-preserving program transformations aimed at improving code quality.

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2017–2026

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Why we refactor? confessions of GitHub contributors

Danilo Silva, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Marco Túlio Valente · 2016 · 278 citations · Full text

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CatchUp!

Johannes Henkel, Amer Diwan · 2005 · 274 citations

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When Does a Refactoring Induce Bugs? An Empirical Study

Gabriele Bavota, Bernardino De Carluccio, Andrea De Lucia et al. · 2012 · 165 citations

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RefDiff: Detecting Refactorings in Version Histories

Danilo Silva, Marco Túlio Valente · 2017 · 138 citations · Full text

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Creating abstract superclasses by refactoring

William F. Opdyke, Ralph E. Johnson · 1993 · 128 citations · Full text

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Authors

128

  1. GB
    Gabriele Bavota

    Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland

    12 publications · 653 citations

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  2. RO
    Rocco Oliveto

    University of Molise, Italy

    11 publications · 677 citations

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  3. AD
    Andrea De Lucia

    University of Salerno, Italy

    8 publications · 521 citations

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  4. MW
    Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer

    Rochester Institute of Technology, United States

    6 publications · 245 citations

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  5. AO
    Ali Ouni

    École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada

    5 publications · 154 citations

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Institutions

60

  1. University of Molise

    Campobasso, Italy

    9 h-index

    15 publications

    807 citations

  2. University of Salerno

    Fisciano, Italy

    9 h-index

    23 publications

    1.5K citations

  3. Rochester Institute of Technology

    Rochester, United States

    6 h-index

    14 publications

    374 citations

  4. École de Technologie Supérieure

    Montreal, Canada

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    227 citations

  5. Université du Québec à Montréal

    Montreal, Canada

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    171 citations

  6. Concordia University

    Montreal, Canada

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    359 citations

  7. University of Sannio

    Benevento, Italy

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    485 citations

  8. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    467 citations

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  1. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

    TOSEM · 3 publications · 256 citations

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  2. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 2 publications · 92 citations

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  3. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

    ENTCS · 2 publications · 55 citations

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

    TSE · 1 publications · 84 citations

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