Paper Info
Title
Measuring refactoring benefits: a survey of the evidence.
Abstract
Refactoring has become a standard technique for software developers to use when trying to improve or evolve the design of a program. It is a key component of Agile methods, the most popular family of software development methodologies in industrial practice. Refactoring has also been the subject of much attention from researchers and many practitioner textbooks have been written on the topic. It would be natural to assume then that the benefits of refactoring would be easy agree upon, and easy to measure. In this position paper we review a selection of the empirical studies that have attempted to measure the benefits of refactoring and find the situation to be quite unclear. The evidence suggests that what motivates developers to refactor, and what benefits accrue from refactoring, are open issues that require further research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2975945.2975948
IWoR@ASE
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mel Ó Cinnéide148127.36
Aiko Yamashita221.07
Steve Counsell31732117.90