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On the Documentation of Refactoring Types
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Jiaqian Liu, Kenneth Addo +4
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 m…
AntiCopyPaster: Extracting Code Duplicates As Soon As They Are Introduced in the IDE
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Anton Ivanov, Zarina Kurbatova +7
We developed a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA called AntiCopyPaster, which tracks the pasting of code fragments inside the IDE and suggests the appropriate Extract Method refactoring to…
Refactoring for Reuse: An Empirical Study
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Tianjia Wang, Vaibhavi Raut +3
Refactoring is the de-facto practice to optimize software health. While several studies propose refactoring strategies to optimize software design through applying design patterns…
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…
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…
On Preserving the Behavior in Software Refactoring: A Systematic Mapping Study
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Christian Newman +1
Context: Refactoring is the art of modifying the design of a system without altering its behavior. The idea is to reorganize variables, classes and methods to facilitate their futu…
SATDBailiff- Mining and Tracking Self-Admitted Technical Debt
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Ben Christians, Mihal Busho +4
Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) is a metaphorical concept to describe the self-documented addition of technical debt to a software project in the form of source code comments.…
Test Smell Detection Tools: A Systematic Mapping Study
Wajdi Aljedaani, Anthony Peruma, Ahmed Aljohani +6
Test smells are defined as sub-optimal design choices developers make when implementing test cases. Hence, similar to code smells, the research community has produced numerous test…
Refactoring Practices in the Context of Modern Code Review: An Industrial Case Study at Xerox
Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Hussein AlRubaye, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer +2
Modern code review is a common and essential practice employed in both industrial and open-source projects to improve software quality, share knowledge, and ensure conformance with…