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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Is Software Reuse Discussed in Stack Overflow?
Software reuse is a crucial external quality attribute targeted by open-source and commercial projects. Despite that software reuse has experienced an increased adoption throughout the years, little is known a...
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Article
On the use of textual feature extraction techniques to support the automated detection of refactoring documentation
Refactoring is the art of improving the internal structure of a program without altering its external behavior, and it is an important task when it comes to software maintainability. While existing studies hav...
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Article
Refactoring for reuse: an empirical study
Refactoring is the de-facto practice to optimize software health. While several studies propose refactoring strategies to optimize software design through applying design patterns and removing design defects, lit...
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Article
On the documentation of refactoring types
Commit messages are the atomic level of software documentation. They provide a natural language description of the code change and its purpose. Messages are critical for software maintenance and program compre...
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How do i refactor this? An empirical study on refactoring trends and topics in Stack Overflow
An essential part of software maintenance and evolution, refactoring is performed by developers, regardless of technology or domain, to improve the internal quality of the system, and reduce its technical debt...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Exploratory Study on How Software Reuse is Discussed in Stack Overflow
Software reuse is an important and crucial quality attribute in modern software engineering, where almost all software projects, open source or commercial, no matter small or ultra-large, source code reuse in ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
How Do Developers Refactor Code to Improve Code Reusability?
Refactoring is the de-facto practice to optimize software health. While there has been several studies proposing refactoring strategies to optimize software design through applying design patterns and removing de...