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Prioritizing maintainability defects based on refactoring recommendations

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Daniela Steidl,

Sebastian EderAuthors Info & Claims

ICPC 2014: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension

Pages 168 - 176

https://doi.org/10.1145/2597008.2597805

Published: 02 June 2014 Publication History

Abstract

As a measure of software quality, current static code analyses reveal thousands of quality defects on systems in brown-field development in practice. Currently, there exists no way to prioritize among a large number of quality defects and developers lack a structured approach to address the load of refactoring. Consequently, although static analyses are often used, they do not lead to actual quality improvement. Our approach recommends to remove quality defects, exemplary code clones and long methods, which are easy to refactor and, thus, provides developers a first starting point for quality improvement. With an empirical industrial Java case study, we evaluate the usefulness of the recommendation based on developers’ feedback. We further quantify which external factors influence the process of quality defect removal in industry software development.

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Prioritizing maintainability defects based on refactoring recommendations
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ICPC 2014: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension

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DOI:10.1145/2597008

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University of Saskatchewan, Canada
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Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

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