On the Relation between Complexity, Explicitness, Effectiveness of Refactorings and Non-Functional Concerns

Unveiling Social and Technical Facets of Design Degradation in Modern Code Review

“…Maximal subgraph that contains nodes of degree k or more. 4 1 And more keywords based on previous work [155,154] 2 And more keywords based on previous work [133] 3 We discarded comments made by non-human participants and applied the preprocessing in the text removing contractions, stop words, punctuation, and replacing numbers 4 The initial node is the committer of the revision and all other nodes are the reviewers of each revision may contain more information about a code change that may help reviewers comprehend the change more easily.…”

Aligning Developer Quality Concerns, Refactoring Applications, and Their Effects

“…At the time of the defense of this dissertation, this research has one published paper [47] in which the author here is also the first author there.…”

“…We first propose a potential relationship between refactoring complexity and effectiveness, then later correlate such relationship to both refactoring explicitness and the presence of NFCs. This study consists of the paper "On the Relation between Complexity, Explicitness, Effectiveness of Refactorings and Non-Functional Concerns" [47], which was accepted on the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES) in 2020.…”

“…As such, in this chapter, the paper On the Relation between Complexity, Explicitness, Effectiveness of Refactorings and Non-Functional Concerns [47] will be presented in its entirety. The paper was accepted and published on the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES) in 2020.…”

“…However, Understand has a very large amount of metrics related to the size and complexity of the code, and lacks metrics for code cohesion. Thus, in order to balance the amount of metrics in each attribute, we selected a set of 15 metrics, which are listed in the work's companion website [48].…”