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An Exploratory Study on Refactoring Documentation in Issues Handling
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer +2
Understanding the practice of refactoring documentation is of paramount importance in academia and industry. Issue tracking systems are used by most software projects enabling deve…
Understanding Digits in Identifier Names: An Exploratory Study
Anthony Peruma, Christian D. Newman
Before any software maintenance can occur, developers must read the identifier names found in the code to be maintained. Thus, high-quality identifier names are essential for produ…
Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and Refactoring
Anthony Peruma, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Christian D. Newman +2
To meet project timelines or budget constraints, developers intentionally deviate from writing optimal code to feasible code in what is known as incurring Technical Debt (TD). Furt…
How Do I Refactor This? An Empirical Study on Refactoring Trends and Topics in Stack Overflow
Anthony Peruma, Steven Simmons, Eman Abdullah AlOmar +3
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,…
Behind the Scenes: On the Relationship Between Developer Experience and Refactoring
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer +2
Refactoring is widely recognized as one of the efficient techniques to manage technical debt and maintain a healthy software project through enforcing best design practices or copi…
An Ensemble Approach for Annotating Source Code Identifiers with Part-of-speech Tags
Christian D. Newman, Michael J. Decker, Reem S. AlSuhaibani +7
This paper presents an ensemble part-of-speech tagging approach for source code identifiers. Ensemble tagging is a technique that uses machine-learning and the output from multiple…