1 code implementation • 5 Jan 2021 • Jevgenija Pantiuchina, Fiorella Zampetti, Simone Scalabrino, Valentina Piantadosi, Rocco Oliveto, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta
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
no code implementations • 25 Jan 2019 • Michele Tufano, Jevgenija Pantiuchina, Cody Watson, Gabriele Bavota, Denys Poshyvanyk
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.