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Impact of refactoring on quality code evaluation

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Francesca Arcelli Fontana,

Stefano SpinelliAuthors Info & Claims

WRT '11: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Refactoring Tools

Pages 37 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/1984732.1984741

Published: 22 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Code smells are characteristics of the software that may indicate a code or design problem that can make software hard to understand, to evolve and maintain. Detecting code smells in the code and consequently applying the right refactoring steps, when necessary, is very important for improving the quality of the code. In this paper, according to well known metrics proposed to evaluate the code and design quality of a system, we analyze the impact of refactoring, applied to remove code smells, on the quality evaluation of the system.

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Impact of refactoring on quality code evaluation
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
        Software product lines
    2. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering

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