Comparing Commit Messages and Source Code Metrics for the Prediction Refactoring Activities

Comparing Commit Messages and Source Code Metrics for the Prediction Refactoring Activities

Understanding how developers refactor their code is critical to support the design improvement process of software. This paper investigates to what extent code metrics are good indicators for predicting refactoring activity in the source code. In order to perform this, we formulated the prediction o...

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Main Authors: Priyadarshni Suresh Sagar, Eman Abdulah AlOmar, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-09-01
Series:Algorithms
Subjects:
refactoring
software quality
commits
software metrics
software engineering
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/14/10/289

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