Title Refactoring--Does It Improve Software Quality?
           URL http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1270369
          Year 2007
     Citations 99
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    Cluster ID 5835552492203685175
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       Excerpt Abstract Software systems undergo modifications, improvements and enhancements to cope with evolving requirements. This maintenance can cause their quality to decrease. Various metrics can be used to evaluate the way the quality is affected. Refactoring is one of the most important and commonly used techniques of transforming a piece of software in order to improve its quality. However, although it would be expected that the increase in quality  ...