A Preliminary Investigation of Self-Admitted Refactorings in Open Source Software (S)

Di, Zhang, Li, Bing, Li, Zengyang and Liang, Peng (2018) A Preliminary Investigation of Self-Admitted Refactorings in Open Source Software (S). In: The 30th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

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Abstract

In software development, developers commit code changes to the version control system. In a commit message, the committer may explicitly claim that the commit is a refactoring with the intention of code quality improvement. We defined such a commit as a self-Admitted refactoring (SAR). Currently, there is little knowledge about the SAR phenomenon, and the impact of SARs on software projects is not clear. In this work, we performed a preliminary investigation on SARs with an emphasis on their impact on code quality using the assessment of code smells. We used two non-Trivial open source software projects as cases and employed the PMD tool to detect code smells. The study results shows that: (1) SARs tend to improve code quality, though a small proportion of SARs introduced new code smells; and (2) projects that contain SARs have different results on frequently affected code smells.

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Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	03 Dec 2019 14:31
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 00:17
DOI:	10.18293/seke2018-081
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3064634