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Migrating to microservices is an error-prone process with deep pitfalls resulting in high costs for mistakes. Microservices is a relatively new architectural style, resulting in the lack of general guidelines for migrating monoliths towards ...

To preserve high quality of a project, it is necessary to perform many refactoring steps during the development and maintenance phases. Code refactoring received a great attention in the literature, often directed to the refactoring of code smells. ...

Working in the highly agile world of Software As-A-Service (SaaS) enterprise software products, the authors describe their experience of the constant evolution in terms of continuous refactoring. This paper examines several of the key drivers for this ...

Refactoring has become a valuable activity during the software development lifecycle, because it can be induced by different causes, like new requirements or quality improvement. In code-based development contexts this activity has been widely studied, ...

When refactoring production code, software developers rely on an automated test suite as a safeguard. However, when refactoring the test suite itself, there is no such safeguard. Therefore, there is a need for tool support that can verify if a ...

Renaming is vital to software maintenance and evolution. Developers rename entities when their original names no longer fit their behavioral role within the program. This may happen if the entity's original name was of poor quality or if the system has ...

Although there is much research advancing state-of-art of program transformation tools, their application in industry source code change problems has not yet been gauged. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to better understand developer ...

In this paper, we are approaching the problem of automatic refactoring recommendation for object-oriented systems. An approach based on clustering ensembles is proposed, several heuristics to existing algorithms and to filtering and combining their ...