Recommending Refactoring Solutions Based on Traceability and Code Metrics

Nyamawe, Ally S.; Liu, Hui; Niu, Zhendong; Wang, Wentao; Niu, Nan

doi:10.1109/access.2018.2868990

Cited by 23 publications

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“…Recent studies showed that the effects of refactoring techniques on software quality attributes are inconsistent and contradictory [164]. As pointed out in [165] and [53], the inconsistent or contradictory results concerning the effect of refactoring techniques [166] on software quality, is one of the challenges for developers when they use the refactoring techniques to improve software quality. As such, categorization of the refactoring techniques based on their effect on software quality attributes can potentially help developers in achieving their design objectives.…”

Section: Challenges In Implementing Software Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Software security models and frameworks: an overview and current trends

Korir¹

2023

World J. Adv. Eng. Technol. Sci.

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The continued dependence on information technology applications has led to the adoption of electronic channels and software applications to support businesses, online transactions and communications. In this perspective, both functional and non-functional requirements are critical for the provision of necessary needs at the early phases of the software development process. This is specifically important in the requirement phase of the software development process. Software security is increasingly becoming a necessity concern in this environment. Unfortunately, security concepts such as access control requirements are mostly considered after the functional requirement definition stage. In addition, majority of the developers and organizations regard security as an activity that can be incorporated after the development of a system. This leads to flaws and security defects in the access control mechanism. Therefore, software security issues must be given higher priority in the early stages of the development process. The aim of this paper is to offer a survey of the software security techniques, frameworks and models that have been developed to deal with these issues. The results obtained indicate that software vulnerabilities have made it possible for attackers to exploit them to cause havoc in computerized systems and has become one of the most critical risks facing modern corporate networks. Since most of these vulnerabilities involve exploitable weaknesses introduced through badly written code, the cyber security community has tried to come up with techniques to enhance software products.

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Section: Challenges In Implementing Software Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Software security models and frameworks: an overview and current trends

Korir¹

2023

World J. Adv. Eng. Technol. Sci.

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“…Keivanloo et al [11] proposes an approach to find working code examples from a large code corpus on the Internet by using maximal frequent itemset mining and custom search ranking function. Nyamawe et al [17] recommend refactoring solutions by using traceability and code metrics.…”

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Recommending Code Improvements Based on Stack Overflow Answer Edits

Chaiyong¹,

Paixao²

2022

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Background: Sub-optimal code is prevalent in software systems. Developers may write low-quality code due to many reasons, such as lack of technical knowledge, lack of experience, time pressure, management decisions, and even unhappiness. Once sub-optimal code is unknowingly (or knowingly) integrated into the codebase of software systems, its accumulation may lead to large maintenance costs and technical debt. Stack Overflow is a popular website for programmers to ask questions and share their code snippets. The crowdsourced and collaborative nature of Stack Overflow has created a large source of programming knowledge that can be leveraged to assist developers in their day-to-day activities. Objective: In this paper, we present an exploratory study to evaluate the usefulness of recommending code improvements based on Stack Overflow answers' edits. Method: We propose Matcha, a code recommendation tool that leverages Stack Overflow code snippets with version history and code clone search techniques to identify sub-optimal code in software projects and suggest their optimised version. By using SOTorrent and GitHub datasets, we will quali-quantitatively investigate the usefulness of recommendations given by Matcha to developers using manual categorisation of the recommendations and acceptance of pull-requests to open-source projects. CCS CONCEPTS• Software and its engineering → Maintaining software; Software evolution.

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“…In other words, there is conflicting evidence on refactoring benefits [35]. As a result, the developers encounter challenges to select a suitable refactoring technique that can improve certain software quality by removing poor design flaws [36], [37], [38].…”

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Revisiting Scenarios of Using Refactoring Techniques to Improve Software Systems Quality

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Refactoring is one of the most widely used techniques in practice to improve the quality of existing software. However, it is observed that refactoring does not continually improve all software quality attributes. Recent studies indicated that different refactoring techniques have significantly different, sometimes opposite, and conflicting effects on software quality attributes. In other words, there is contradictory evidence on the refactoring benefit. As a result, developers face challenges in selecting appropriate refactoring techniques when they use them to improve software quality. To the best of our knowledge, no study has investigated factors that may explain inconsistent or diverging results concerning the effect of refactoring techniques on software quality. Therefore, in this study, scenarios of using refactoring techniques factor have been identified, investigated, and thoroughly analyzed. Ten of the most commonly used refactoring techniques in practice have been chosen and individually applied in seven case studies of varying sizes (small, medium, and large). The Quality Model for Object-Oriented Design (QMOOD) is used to assess how refactoring techniques affect quality attributes. The findings provide strong evidence that this factor plays a significant role in producing the various effects of refactoring techniques on quality attributes. These findings can help software developers understand how to use refactoring techniques to improve software quality while taking this factor into account. The best scenario for using each refactoring technique to improve software system quality has been identified. The findings can provide guidelines for software developers to use refactoring techniques to improve the quality of software systems based on the best scenarios of using the refactoring techniques.

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Recommending Refactoring Solutions Based on Traceability and Code Metrics

Cited by 23 publications

References 48 publications

Software security models and frameworks: an overview and current trends

Software security models and frameworks: an overview and current trends

Recommending Code Improvements Based on Stack Overflow Answer Edits

Revisiting Scenarios of Using Refactoring Techniques to Improve Software Systems Quality

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