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An Empirical Assessment of Refactoring Impact on Software Quality Using a Hierarchical Quality Model

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  • 발행기관
    보안공학연구지원센터(IJSEIA) 바로가기
  • 간행물
    International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications SCOPUS 바로가기
  • 통권
    Vol.5 No.4 (2011.10)바로가기
  • 페이지
    pp.127-150
  • 저자
    Raed Shatnawi, Wei Li
  • 언어
    영어(ENG)
  • URL
    https://www.earticle.net/Article/A158885

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영어
Software refactoring is a collection of reengineering activities that aims to improve software quality. Refactorings are commonly used in agile software processes to improve software quality after a significant software development or evolution. There is belief that refactoring improves quality factors such as understandability, flexibility, and reusability. However, there is limited empirical evidence to support such assumptions. The aim of this study is to confirm such claims using a hierarchal quality model. We study the effect of software refactoring on software quality. We provide details of our findings as heuristics that can help software developers make more informed decisions about what refactorings to perform in regard to improve a particular quality factor. We validate the proposed heuristics in an empirical setting on two open-source systems. We found that the majority of refactoring heuristics do improve quality; however some heuristics do not have a positive impact on all software quality factors. In addition, we found that the impact analysis of refactorings divides software measures into two categories: high and low impacted measures. These categories help in the endeavor to know the best measures that can be used to identify refactoring candidates. We validated our findings on two open-source systems—Eclipse and Struts. For both systems, we found consistency between the heuristics and the actual refactorings.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Related Work
 3. The Quality Model for Object-Oriented Design
 4. Research Methodology
  4.1 Software Measures
  4.2 Software Refactoring
 5. Refactoring Analysis
  5.1 Refactoring Impact Analysis
  5.2 Refactoring impact analysis on quality factors
  5.3 Discussion
 6. Empirical Validation
  6.1 EclipseUI Case Study
  6.2 Struts Case Study
 7. Conclusion
  7.1 Study Limitations and Future Work
 References

저자

  • Raed Shatnawi [ Software Engineering Department, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Irbid, Jordan 22110 ]
  • Wei Li [ Computer Science Department, University of Alabama in Huntsville, AL 35899, USA, ]

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발행기관

  • 발행기관명
    보안공학연구지원센터(IJSEIA) [Science & Engineering Research Support Center, Republic of Korea(IJSEIA)]
  • 설립연도
    2006
  • 분야
    공학>컴퓨터학
  • 소개
    1. 보안공학에 대한 각종 조사 및 연구 2. 보안공학에 대한 응용기술 연구 및 발표 3. 보안공학에 관한 각종 학술 발표회 및 전시회 개최 4. 보안공학 기술의 상호 협조 및 정보교환 5. 보안공학에 관한 표준화 사업 및 규격의 제정 6. 보안공학에 관한 산학연 협동의 증진 7. 국제적 학술 교류 및 기술 협력 8. 보안공학에 관한 논문지 발간 9. 기타 본 회 목적 달성에 필요한 사업

간행물

  • 간행물명
    International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications
  • 간기
    월간
  • pISSN
    1738-9984
  • 수록기간
    2008~2016
  • 등재여부
    SCOPUS
  • 십진분류
    KDC 505 DDC 605

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