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On the Use of Refactoring in Security Vulnerability Fixes: An Exploratory Study on Maven Libraries
Ayano Ikegami, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Bodin Chinthanet +4
Third-party library dependencies are commonplace in today's software development. With the growing threat of security vulnerabilities, applying security fixes in a timely manner is…
Code Review Practices for Refactoring Changes: An Empirical Study on OpenStack
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Moataz Chouchen, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer +1
Modern code review is a widely used technique employed in both industrial and open-source projects to improve software quality, share knowledge, and ensure adherence to coding stan…
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…
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,…
Predicting Code Review Completion Time in Modern Code Review
Moataz Chouchen, Jefferson Olongo, Ali Ouni +1
Context. Modern Code Review (MCR) is being adopted in both open source and commercial projects as a common practice. MCR is a widely acknowledged quality assurance practice that al…