Keyword

refactoring

Description: A software maintenance process that restructures existing source code to improve its design or quality without changing its external behavior.

Primary topic: Software Engineering Research (53%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q116877

OpenAlex ID: keywords/refactoring

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

2002 · Martin Fowler · Lecture notes in computer science · 5,762

Refactoring improving the design of existing code

2017 · Mauricio A. Saca · IEEE Central America and Panama Convention (CONCAPAN) · 2,057

Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices

2002 · Robert Martin · 1,454

Test Driven Development: By Example

2002 · Beck · Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks · 1,266

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

2016 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 1,219

A survey of software refactoring

2004 · T. Mens, T. Tourwe · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1,195

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Refactoring object-oriented frameworks

1992 · William F. Opdyke · 1,027

AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis

1998 · William Hill Brown, Raphael C. Malveau, et al. · 931

Nonlinear Finite-Element Analysis Software Architecture Using Object Composition

2009 · Frank McKenna, Michael H. Scott, et al. · Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering · 918

A Survey on Software Clone Detection Research

2007 · Chanchal K. Roy, James R. Cordy · 731

Technical Debt: From Metaphor to Theory and Practice

2012 · Philippe Kruchten, Robert L. Nord, et al. · IEEE Software · 729

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

2023 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 620

How We Refactor, and How We Know It

2011 · Emerson Murphy-Hill, Chris Parnin, et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 547

An empirical study of code clone genealogies

2005 · Miryung Kim, Vibha Sazawal, et al. · ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) · 537

Large Language Models for Software Engineering: Survey and Open Problems

2023 · Angela Fan, Beliz Gokkaya, et al. · 515

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Software systems as complex networks: Structure, function, and evolvability of software collaboration graphs

2003 · Christopher R. Myers · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 456

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Refactoring to Patterns

2004 · Joshua Kerievsky · Lecture notes in computer science · 423

Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies

2001 · Deepak Alur, Dan Malks, et al. · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 422

Clean Code : A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

2008 · Robert Martin · 419