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Why Developers Refactor Source Code: A Mining-based Study
Our results led to (i) quantitative evidence of the relationship existing between certain process/product metrics and refactoring operations and (ii) a detailed taxonomy, generalizing and complementing the ones existing in the literature, of motivations pushing developers to refactor source code.
Software Engineering
On Learning Meaningful Code Changes via Neural Machine Translation
We show that, when applied in a narrow enough context (i. e., small/medium-sized pairs of methods before/after the pull request changes), NMT can automatically replicate the changes implemented by developers during pull requests in up to 36% of the cases.
