Code refactoring (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Code refactoring" in English language version.

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acm.org (Global: 1,200^th place; English: 821^st place)

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Opdyke, William F (June 1992). Refactoring Object-Oriented Frameworks (compressed Postscript) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 2008-02-12.

adsabs.harvard.edu (Global: 14^th place; English: 9^th place)

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

Leiserson, Charles E.; Thompson, Neil C.; Emer, Joel S.; Kuszmaul, Bradley C.; Lampson, Butler W.; Sanchez, Daniel; Schardl, Tao B. (2020). "There's plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore's law?". Science. 368 (6495) eaam9744. Bibcode:2020Sci...368m9744L. doi:10.1126/science.aam9744. hdl:1721.1/159445. PMID 32499413.

apple.com (Global: 70^th place; English: 55^th place)

developer.apple.com

"What's new in Xcode 9".

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

Fowler, Martin (1999). Refactoring. Improving the Design of Existing Code. Addison-Wesley. pp. 63ff. ISBN 978-0-201-48567-7.
Fowler, Martin (1999). Refactoring: improving the design of existing code. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-48567-7. OCLC 41017370.

arxiv.org (Global: 49^th place; English: 31^st place)

Tempero, Ewan; Ralph, Paul (2026-03-16). "Making Software Metrics Useful". arXiv:2603.16012 [cs.SE].

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

Smart, John Ferguson (2008). Java Power Tools. O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 301. ISBN 978-1-4919-5454-6. Retrieved 26 July 2018.

dac.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

M. Keating, "Complexity, Abstraction, and the Challenges of Designing Complex Systems", in DAC'08 tutorial Archived 2016-03-28 at the Wayback Machine"Bridging a Verification Gap: C++ to RTL for Practical Design"

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Leiserson, Charles E.; Thompson, Neil C.; Emer, Joel S.; Kuszmaul, Bradley C.; Lampson, Butler W.; Sanchez, Daniel; Schardl, Tao B. (2020). "There's plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore's law?". Science. 368 (6495) eaam9744. Bibcode:2020Sci...368m9744L. doi:10.1126/science.aam9744. hdl:1721.1/159445. PMID 32499413.
Fraivert, Dov; Lorenz, David H. (2022). "Language Support for Refactorability Decay Prevention". Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences. pp. 122–134. doi:10.1145/3564719.3568688. ISBN 978-1-4503-9920-3.
Haendler, Thorsten; Neumann, Gustaf (2019). "A Framework for the Assessment and Training of Software Refactoring Competences". Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. pp. 307–316. doi:10.5220/0008350803070316. ISBN 978-989-758-382-7. S2CID 204754665.
Nassif, Matthieu; Robillard, Martin P. (November 2017). Revisiting Turnover-Induced Knowledge Loss in Software Projects. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). pp. 261–272. doi:10.1109/ICSME.2017.64. ISBN 978-1-5386-0992-7. S2CID 13147063.
van Gurp, Jilles; Bosch, Jan (March 2002). "Design erosion: problems and causes". Journal of Systems and Software. 61 (2): 105–119. doi:10.1016/S0164-1212(01)00152-2.
Martins, Luana; Pontillo, Valeria; Costa, Heitor; Ferrucci, Filomena; Palomba, Fabio; Machado, Ivan (2024). "Test code refactoring unveiled: where and how does it affect test code quality and effectiveness?". Empirical Software Engineering. 30 (1): 27. doi:10.1007/s10664-024-10577-y.
Ferrante, Jeanne; Ottenstein, Karl J.; Warren, Joe D. (July 1987). "The program dependence graph and its use in optimization". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 9 (3). ACM: 319–349. doi:10.1145/24039.24041. S2CID 505075.
Donglin, Linag; Harrold, M. J. (November 2008). "Slicing objects using system dependence graphs". Proceedings, International Conference on Software Maintenance (Cat. No. 98CB36272). IEEE. pp. 319–349. doi:10.1109/ICSM.1998.738527. ISBN 978-0-8186-8779-2. S2CID 18160599.
Bruntink, M.; van Deursen, A.; Tourwe, T.; van Engelen, R. (2004). "An evaluation of clone detection techniques for crosscutting concerns". Proceedings, 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance. IEEE. doi:10.1109/ICSM.2004.1357804.

duecode.io (Global: low place; English: low place)

Sokolov, Andriy. "What is code refactoring?".

hdl.handle.net (Global: 66^th place; English: 34^th place)

Leiserson, Charles E.; Thompson, Neil C.; Emer, Joel S.; Kuszmaul, Bradley C.; Lampson, Butler W.; Sanchez, Daniel; Schardl, Tao B. (2020). "There's plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore's law?". Science. 368 (6495) eaam9744. Bibcode:2020Sci...368m9744L. doi:10.1126/science.aam9744. hdl:1721.1/159445. PMID 32499413.

martinfowler.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Martin Fowler, "MF Bliki: EtymologyOfRefactoring"".

nih.gov (Global: 5^th place; English: 5^th place)

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Leiserson, Charles E.; Thompson, Neil C.; Emer, Joel S.; Kuszmaul, Bradley C.; Lampson, Butler W.; Sanchez, Daniel; Schardl, Tao B. (2020). "There's plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore's law?". Science. 368 (6495) eaam9744. Bibcode:2020Sci...368m9744L. doi:10.1126/science.aam9744. hdl:1721.1/159445. PMID 32499413.

qt.io (Global: low place; English: low place)

doc.qt.io

"Overview | Qt Creator Documentation".

refactoring.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

(these are only about OOP however).Refactoring techniques in Fowler's refactoring Website
"Replace type-checking code with State/Strategy".
"Replace conditional with polymorphism".

semanticscholar.org (Global: 15^th place; English: 8^th place)

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Haendler, Thorsten; Neumann, Gustaf (2019). "A Framework for the Assessment and Training of Software Refactoring Competences". Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. pp. 307–316. doi:10.5220/0008350803070316. ISBN 978-989-758-382-7. S2CID 204754665.
Nassif, Matthieu; Robillard, Martin P. (November 2017). Revisiting Turnover-Induced Knowledge Loss in Software Projects. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME). pp. 261–272. doi:10.1109/ICSME.2017.64. ISBN 978-1-5386-0992-7. S2CID 13147063.
Ferrante, Jeanne; Ottenstein, Karl J.; Warren, Joe D. (July 1987). "The program dependence graph and its use in optimization". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 9 (3). ACM: 319–349. doi:10.1145/24039.24041. S2CID 505075.
Donglin, Linag; Harrold, M. J. (November 2008). "Slicing objects using system dependence graphs". Proceedings, International Conference on Software Maintenance (Cat. No. 98CB36272). IEEE. pp. 319–349. doi:10.1109/ICSM.1998.738527. ISBN 978-0-8186-8779-2. S2CID 18160599.

sourceforge.net (Global: 1,842^nd place; English: 1,520^th place)

thinking-forth.sourceforge.net

Brodie, Leo (2004). Thinking Forth. Fig Leaf Press, Forth Interest. pp. 171–196. ISBN 0-9764587-0-5. Archived from the original on 16 December 2005. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

ucsd.edu (Global: 2,146^th place; English: 1,364^th place)

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Griswold, William G (July 1991). Program Restructuring as an Aid to Software Maintenance (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Washington. Retrieved 2011-12-24.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

M. Keating, "Complexity, Abstraction, and the Challenges of Designing Complex Systems", in DAC'08 tutorial Archived 2016-03-28 at the Wayback Machine"Bridging a Verification Gap: C++ to RTL for Practical Design"
Brodie, Leo (2004). Thinking Forth. Fig Leaf Press, Forth Interest. pp. 171–196. ISBN 0-9764587-0-5. Archived from the original on 16 December 2005. Retrieved 3 May 2020.

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; English: 4^th place)

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Fowler, Martin (1999). Refactoring: improving the design of existing code. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-48567-7. OCLC 41017370.

Code refactoring (English Wikipedia)

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