Finding needles in a haystack: Leveraging co-change dependencies to recommend refactorings

• Main Authors: DE OLIVEIRA, Marcos César, FREITAS, Davi, BONIFACIO, Rodrigo, PINTO, Gustavo, LO, David
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Remodularization; Software clustering; Design quality; Refactoring; Co-change dependencies; Computer Engineering; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4470; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5473/viewcontent/Needle_in_haystack_JSS_2019_sv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A fine-grained co-change dependency arises when two fine-grained source-code entities, e.g., a method,change frequently together. This kind of dependency is relevant when considering remodularization efforts (e.g., to keep methods that change together in the same class). However, existing approaches...