Paper Info
Title
The Birth of Refactoring: A Retrospective on the Nature of High-Impact Software Engineering Research.
Abstract
Software refactoring was independently invented in the late '80s by two students in two research groups: Ralph Johnson's group at the University of Illinois and David Notkin's group at the University of Washington. This article provides a retrospective of the birth of refactoring, reflecting on how the ideas came about and were developed in those two students' doctoral dissertations. The analysis ...
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/MS.2015.107
IEEE Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
Code refractoring,Data structures,Programming,Software engineering,Technological innovation,Semantics,Software development
Data structure,Program restructuring,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Software,Software maintenance,Engineering,Code refactoring,Semantics,Software development
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
6
0740-7459
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.46
5
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William G. Griswold13174359.11
William F. Opdyke213524.02