Refactoring Graphs: Reasoning about Refactoring over Time

This repository includes scripts and data from PhD thesis Refactoring Graphs: Reasoning about Refactoring over Time, UFMG, 2023.

Dataset & Scripts

Defining and Characterizing Refactoring Graphs (Chapter 3)

Scripts: github.com/alinebrito/refactoring-graph-generator

Web application to visualize refactoring graphs: refactoring-graph.github.io

Refactoring Comprehension Using Refactoring Graphs (Chapter 4)

Web application to visualize the operations performed by the students (and our analysis): github.com/alinebrito/refgraph-fowler-study

A Catalog of Composite Refactorings (Chapter 5)

Dataset: github.com/alinebrito/composite-refactoring-catalog

Scripts: github.com/alinebrito/composite-refactoring-catalog/detector

Manuscripts

• Aline Brito, Andre Hora, Marco Tulio Valente. Refactoring Graphs: Assessing Refactoring over Time. In 27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), pages 367-377, 2020.

@inproceedings{refGraph:SANER:2020, 
  author = {Aline Brito and Andre Hora and Marco Tulio Valente}, 
  title = {Refactoring Graphs: Assessing Refactoring over Time}, 
  booktitle = {27th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)}, 
  year = {2020}, 
  pages = {367--377}
}

• Aline Brito, Andre Hora, Marco Tulio Valente. Characterizing Refactoring Graphs in Java and JavaScript Projects. Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 26, n. 6, pages 1-43, 2021.

@article{refGraph:EMSE:2021, 
  author = {Aline Brito and Andre Hora and Marco Tulio Valente}, 
  title = {Characterizing Refactoring Graphs in {Java} and {JavaScript} Projects}, 
  journal = {Empirical Software Engineering}, 
  volume = {26}, 
  number = {6},
  pages = {1--43},  
  year = {2021}
}

• Aline Brito, Andre Hora, Marco Tulio Valente. Understanding Refactoring Tasks over Time: A Study Using Refactoring Graphs. In 25th Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE), pages 1-15, 2022.

@inproceedings{refGraph:CIbSE:2022,
    author = {Aline Brito and Andre Hora and Marco Tulio Valente},
    title = {Understanding Refactoring Tasks over Time: A Study Using Refactoring Graphs},
    year = {2022},
    booktitle = {XXV Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE)},
    pages = {1-15}
}

• Aline Brito, Andre Hora, Marco Tulio Valente. Towards a Catalog of Composite Refactorings. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, vol. 1, pages 1-43, 2023.

@article{CatalogCompositeRefactorings:jsep:2023, 
  author = {Aline Brito and Andre Hora and Marco Tulio Valente}, 
  title = {Towards a Catalog of Composite Refactorings}, 
  journal = {Journal of Software: Evolution and Process}, 
  volume = {1}, 
  pages = {1--43},  
  year = {2023}
}