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Are refactorings less error-prone than other changes?

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Peter Weißgerber,

Stephan DiehlAuthors Info & Claims

MSR '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories

Pages 112 - 118

https://doi.org/10.1145/1137983.1138011

Published: 22 May 2006 Publication History

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Refactorings are program transformations which should preserve the program behavior. Consequently, we expect that during phases when there are mostly refactorings in the change history of a system, only few new bugs are introduced. For our case study we analyzed the version histories of several open source systems and reconstructed the refactorings performed. Furthermore, we obtained bug reports from various sources depending on the system. Based on this data we identify phases when the above hypothesis holds and those when it doesn't.

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1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
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2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
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MSR '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories

May 2006

191 pages

ISBN:1595933972

DOI:10.1145/1137983

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Stephan Diehl
University Trier, Germany
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Harald Gall
University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Ahmed E. Hassan
Research in Motion RIM, Canada

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