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To Improve Code Structure by Identifying Move Method Opportunities Using Frequent Usage Patterns in Source-Code

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Advanced Informatics for Computing Research (ICAICR 2018)

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A smelly code is generally an indication of the poor quality of the software and it increases the understandability and maintenance efforts at the software programmer’s end. One technique to improve the quality is refactoring. Therefore, in this paper, we have identified the Feature Envy code smell and applied the corresponding Move Method refactoring. The code smell is tackled using the Frequent Usage Patterns (FUP’s) present in the source-code of the software. The FUP’s are identified at the method level and theyrepresent the set of member variables that are used by it either directly or indirectly. The identified FUP data is further used to cluster different methods using a newly proposed Clustering algorithm. Moreover, the proposed approach is successfully tested and evaluated on three standard open-source object-oriented software. The obtained results after evaluation confirm the ability of our proposed approach in enhancing the quality of the underlying software system.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana-Ambala, 133-207, Haryana, India

    Randeep Singh & Ashok Kumar

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

    Ashish Kumar Luhach

  2. Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia

    Dharm Singh

  3. National Chung Cheng University, Minxiong Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan

    Pao-Ann Hsiung

  4. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Pekan, Pahang, Malaysia

    Kamarul Bin Ghazali Hawari

  5. Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada

    Pawan Lingras

  6. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Kandaghat, India

    Pradeep Kumar Singh

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Singh, R., Kumar, A. (2019). To Improve Code Structure by Identifying Move Method Opportunities Using Frequent Usage Patterns in Source-Code. In: Luhach, A., Singh, D., Hsiung, PA., Hawari, K., Lingras, P., Singh, P. (eds) Advanced Informatics for Computing Research. ICAICR 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 955. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3140-4_29

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