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Software refactoring plays an important role in software engineering. Developers often turn to refactoring when they want to restructure software to improve its quality without changing its external behavior. Studies show that small-scale…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-16 James Ivers , Robert L. Nord , Ipek Ozkaya , Chris Seifried , Christopher S. Timperley , Marouane Kessentini

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. However, choosing the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Anthony Peruma , Steven Simmons , Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Christian D. Newman , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Ali Ouni

With the rapid development of deep learning, the implementation of intricate algorithms and substantial data processing have become standard elements of deep learning projects. As a result, the code has become progressively complex as the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Siqi Wang , Xing Hu , Bei Wang , Wenxin Yao , Xin Xia , Xinyu Wang

Like software, requirements evolve and change frequently during the development process. Refactoring is the process of reorganising software without changing its behaviour, to make it easier to understand and modify. We propose refactoring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Marie Farrell , Matt Luckcuck , Oisin Sheridan , Rosemary Monahan

In this paper we study the problem of reducing the evaluation costs of queries on finite databases in presence of integrity constraints, by designing and materializing views. Given a database schema, a set of queries defined on the schema,…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Rada Chirkova , Michael R. Genesereth

Knowledge refactoring compresses a logic program by introducing new rules. Current approaches struggle to scale to large programs. To overcome this limitation, we introduce a constrained optimisation refactoring approach. Our first key idea…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Minghao Liu , David M. Cerna , Filipe Gouveia , Andrew Cropper

Due to the growing complexity of software systems, there has been a dramatic increase and industry demand for tools and techniques on software refactoring in the last ten years, defined traditionally as a set of program transformations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Chaima Abid , Vahid Alizadeh , Marouane Kessentini , Thiago do Nascimento Ferreira , Danny Dig

Enterprise applications are often built as service-oriented architectures, where the individual services are designed to perform specific functions and interact with each other by means of well-defined APIs (Application Programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Fabrizio Montesi , Marco Peressotti , Valentino Picotti , Olaf Zimmermann

This tutorial overviews the state of the art in learning models over relational databases and makes the case for a first-principles approach that exploits recent developments in database research. The input to learning classification and…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Maximilian Schleich , Dan Olteanu , Mahmoud Abo-Khamis , Hung Q. Ngo , XuanLong Nguyen

We present an approach to describing refactorings that abstracts away from particular refactorings to classes of similar transformations, and presents an implementation of these that works by substitution and subsequent rewriting.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Simon Thompson , Dániel Horpácsi

Many improvements to programming have come from shortening feedback loops, for example with Integrated Development Environments, Unit Testing, Live Programming, and Distributed Version Control. A barrier to feedback that deserves greater…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jonathan Edwards , Tomas Petricek , Tijs van der Storm , Geoffrey Litt

Assessing and improving the quality of data are fundamental challenges for data-intensive systems that have given rise to applications targeting transformation and cleaning of data. However, while schema design, data cleaning, and data…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Rada Chirkova , Jon Doyle , Juan L. Reutter

It is necessary to gather real refactoring instances while conducting empirical studies on refactoring. However, existing refactoring detection approaches are insufficient in terms of their accuracy and coverage. Reducing the manual effort…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ryo Kuramoto , Motoshi Saeki , Shinpei Hayashi

Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance, and is usually performed to enforce better design and coding practices, while coping with design defects. The Extract Method refactoring is widely used for merging duplicate code…

Refactoring is a maintenance activity that aims to improve design quality while preserving the behavior of a system. Several (semi)automated approaches have been proposed to support developers in this maintenance activity, based on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Rodrigo Morales , Foutse Khomh , Giuliano Antoniol

Complex software can be hard to read, adapt, and maintain. Refactoring it can create cleaner and self-explanatory code. Refactoring tools try to guide developers towards better code, with more quality. However, most of them take too long to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Sara Fernandes , Ademar Aguiar , André Restivo

Developers often change types of program elements. Such refactoring often involves updating not only the type of the element itself, but also the API of all type-dependent references in the code, thus it is tedious and time-consuming.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Oleg Smirnov , Ameya Ketkar , Timofey Bryksin , Nikolaos Tsantalis , Danny Dig

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, little is known about how…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Tianjia Wang , Vaibhavi Raut , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Christian Newman , Ali Ouni

Technical debt is a metaphor that describes the long term effects of shortcuts taken in software development activities to achieve near term goals. In this study, we explore a new context of technical debt that relates to database…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Mashel Albarak , Muna Alrazgan , Rami Bahsoon

Separate programming models for data transformation (declarative) and computation (procedural) impact programmer ergonomics, code reusability and database efficiency. To eliminate the necessity for two models or paradigms, we propose a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-09 David Robert Pratten , Luke Mathieson