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In this paper, a new approach is proposed for automated software maintenance. The tool is able to perform 26 different refactorings. It also contains a large selection of metrics to measure the impact of the refactorings on the software and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Michael Mohan , Des Greer

Tool-assisted refactoring transformations must be trustworthy if programmers are to be confident in applying them on arbitrarily extensive and complex code in order to improve style or efficiency. We propose a simple, high-level but…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Dániel Horpácsi , Judit Kőszegi , Simon Thompson

Code refactoring is a fundamental software engineering practice aimed at improving code quality and maintainability. Despite its importance, developers often neglect refactoring due to the significant time, effort, and resources it…

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 coding standards. During code review, developers may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Eman Abdullah AlOmar , Hussein AlRubaye , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Ali Ouni , Marouane Kessentini

Refactoring is a practice widely adopted during software maintenance and evolution. Due to its importance, there is extensive work on the effectiveness of refactoring in achieving code quality. However, developer's intentions are usually…

Novice programmers often struggle to comprehend code due to vague naming, deep nesting, and poor structural organization. While explanations may offer partial support, they typically do not restructure the code itself. We propose code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Subarna Saha , Alif Al Hasan , Fariha Tanjim Shifat , Mia Mohammad Imran

Refactoring is the process of restructuring existing code without changing its external behavior while improving its internal structure. Refactoring engines are integral components of modern Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Haibo Wang , Zhuolin Xu , Shin Hwei Tan

Recent advances in language model (LM) agents and function calling have enabled autonomous, feedback-driven systems to solve problems across various digital domains. To better understand the unique limitations of LM agents, we introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Dhruv Gautam , Spandan Garg , Jinu Jang , Neel Sundaresan , Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam

Refactoring is a critical process in software development, aiming at improving the internal structure of code while preserving its external behavior. Refactoring engines are integral components of modern Integrated Development Environments…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Haibo Wang , Zhuolin Xu , Huaien Zhang , Nikolaos Tsantalis , Shin Hwei Tan

One of the most time-consuming tasks for developers is the comprehension of new code bases. An effective approach to aid this process is to label source code files with meaningful annotations, which can help developers understand the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Cezar Sas , Andrea Capiluppi

Many code changes that developers make in their projects are repeated and constitute recurrent change patterns. It is of interest to collect such patterns from the version history of open-source repositories and suggest the most useful of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Oleg Smirnov , Artyom Lobanov , Yaroslav Golubev , Elena Tikhomirova , Timofey Bryksin

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

Annotating a large-scale image dataset is very tedious, yet necessary for training person re-identification models. To alleviate such a problem, we present an active hard sample mining framework via training an effective re-ID model with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Xin Xu , Lei Liu , Weifeng Liu , Meng Wang , Ruimin Hu

We present Lean Refactor, a plug-and-play retrieval-augmented agentic framework for multi-objective, controllable, and version-robust refactoring of Lean proofs. LLM-generated proofs are notoriously correct-but-verbose and brittle across…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jialin Lu , Soonho Kong , Rodrigo Stehling , Kaiyu Yang , Zhangyang Wang , Weiran Sun , Wuyang Chen

Reusable data/code and reproducible analyses are foundational to quality research. This aspect, however, is often overlooked when designing interactive stream analysis workflows for time-series data (e.g., eye-tracking data). A mechanism to…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Yasith Jayawardana , Vikas G. Ashok , Sampath Jayarathna

The technique of database refactoring is all about applying disciplined and controlled techniques to change an existing database schema. The problem is to successfully create a Database Refactoring Framework for databases. This paper…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Ayeesha Dsousa , Shalini Bhatia

Empirical research on code review processes is increasingly central to understanding software quality and collaboration. However, collecting and analyzing review data remains a time-consuming and technically intensive task. Most researchers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Samah Kansab , Francis Bordeleau , Ali Tizghadam

Recent advances in coding agents have shown remarkable progress in software issue resolution. In practice, real-world issues are typically bug fixes or feature requests in which human developers naturally incorporate refactoring as part of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhao Tian , Zifan Zhang , Tao Xiao , Dong Wang , Masanari Kondo , Junjie Chen , Yasutaka Kamei

Modern machine learning methods require significant amounts of labelled data, making the preparation process time-consuming and resource-intensive. In this paper, we propose to consider the process of prototyping a tool for annotating and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Nikita Ivanov , Mark Klimov , Dmitry Glukhikh , Tatiana Chernysheva , Igor Glukhikh

GitHub repositories consist of various detailed information about the project contributors, the number of commits and its contributors, releases, pull requests, programming languages, and issues. However, no systematic dataset of open…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shreyansh Surana , Smit Detroja , Saurabh Tiwari