Abstract
Refactoring has been widely used to improve software design. Refactoring is applied when a bad smell is detected. Several bad smells might be present in the code. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study to find if the order of applying refactoring has any impact on the quality of the final code. We run six experiments by applying three refactoring methods in different orders and evaluate the quality of the code using software metrics at the end of each refactoring sequence. Our experiments results show that that applying refactoring in different order provides different impact on the final code.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - CSIT 2016 |
| Subtitle of host publication | 2016 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781467389136 |
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| State | Published - 23 Aug 2016 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings - CSIT 2016: 2016 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology |
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Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016 IEEE.
Keywords
- bad smells
- code quality
- empirical study
- refactoring
- refactoring
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Information Systems
- Software
- Artificial Intelligence