Refactoring has been reported as a helpful technique to systematically improve non-functional attributes of software. This paper evaluates the relevance of refactoring for improving usability on web applications. We conducted ...

Refactoring is a software engineering technique that aims to perform internal changes in the application source code, without influence on its functionality and results. This technique is not restricted only to source ...

The automatic detection of refactoring recommendations has been tackled in prior optimization studies involving bad code smells, semantic coherence and importance of classes; however, such studies informally addressed ...

Code smells are a popular mechanism for identifying structural design problems in software systems. Several tools have emerged to support the detection of code smells and propose some refactorings. However, existing tools ...

Code smells are a popular mechanism to find structural design problems in software systems. Consequently, several tools have emerged to support the detection of code smells. However, the number of smells returned by current ...