… by repeatedly applying the Pull-up Method/Field refactoring. The other refactoring discussed
in this work is the Move Method refactoring. It moves a method, not within the class hierarchy…

… • We proposed a tool to evaluate whether a refactoring is safer through impact analysis. •
Our tool, SafeRefactorImpact, found some behavioral changes previously undetected. • We …

… Automated refactorings may change the program behavior. We propose an approach and
… for making program refactoring safer. We applied 10 Eclipse refactorings in a number of …

… We describe the development of our proof-of-concept Eclipse Plugin: Safer Refactoring
Plug-in, which provides a drop-in replacement of Eclipse’s two refactorings, and report our …

… Despite several evidences that refactorings are not sound and safe, refactoring tools are …
and are not detected by the best program refactoring tools). Our tool has been successful in …

… refactoring browser discovers, at runtime, a reflective call to a type or member that was
previously moved or renamed by a refactoring … tuned towards safer refactorings of reflective Java …

… Refactorings for Throughput Once a program is thread-safe, multithreading can improve its
performance. The programmer could manage a raw thread manually (that is, create, spawn, …

… of applying refactorings, we evaluated the occurrence of refactorings by checking whether
… We believe that SAFEREFACTOR can also be used to evaluate either manually-applied or …

… refactoring involves a set of safe transformations aimed at enhancing the overall security of
the codebase. During refactoring, … However, if done carelessly, refactoring can introduce new …

… Soares [17] presents a tool that checks if a refactoring is safe, ie if it preserves program
behavior. This tool works by generating test cases that should pass for the initial program and the …