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A Quantitative Evaluation of Maintainability Enhancement by Refactoring

ICSM '02: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'02)

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Published: 03 October 2002 Publication History

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Program refactoring is a technique to enhance the maintainabilityof a program. Although the concept itself is consideredto be effective, there are few quantitative evaluationof its impact to the software maintainability. It is sometimesdifficult to judge whether the refactoring in question shouldbe applied or not without knowing the effect accurately.We propose a quantitative evaluation method to measurethe maintainability enhancement effect of program refactoring.We focused on the coupling metrics to evaluate therefactoring effect. By comparing the coupling before andafter the refactoring, we could evaluate the degree of maintainabilityenhancement.We applied our method to a certain program and showedthat our method was really effective to quantify the refactoringeffect and helped us to choose appropriate refactorings.

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- Large packages have significantly higher coupling, cohesion, and complexity issues.
- A package cohesion metric could be used for refactoring large packages.
- A package complexity metric could be used for refactoring large packages.
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ICSM '02: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'02)

October 2002

ISBN:0769518192

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3475716.3475785
Badri MBadri LHachemane OOuellet A(2019)Measuring the effect of clone refactoring on the size of unit test cases in object-oriented softwareInnovations in Systems and Software Engineering10.1007/s11334-019-00334-615:2(117-137)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2019
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