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Collaborative Refactoring: Results of an Empirical Study Using Grounded Theory

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Due to the current market dynamics, changes in requirements are often faced by the software industry, impacting directly on the software system to be produced. To deal with this situation, software development organizations need to use techniques that enable fast responses. Agile methods have been considered adequate to handle these situations. Our research focuses on understanding how Brazilian organizations are adopting agile methods. In this paper we present the results of an empirical study of refactoring activities, which in the organizations we studied are conducted in a collaborative way. We call this collaborative refactoring. Our results suggest that collaborative refactoring promotes knowledge sharing among the development team especially about the software architecture of the system. On the other hand, we also observed that there is a lack of tools to support collaborative refactoring.

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  1. Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, PA, Brazil

    Pedro J. F. Treccani

  2. IBM Research Brazil, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Cleidson R. B. de Souza

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  1. Instituto de Matemática, Departamento de Ciência da Computação, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68.530, CEP 21941-590, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Adriana S. Vivacqua

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, 110 Science Place, S7N 5C9, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

    Carl Gutwin

  3. Instituto de Matemática, Departamento de Ciência da Computação, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68.530, CEP 21941-590, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Treccani, P.J.F., de Souza, C.R.B. (2011). Collaborative Refactoring: Results of an Empirical Study Using Grounded Theory. In: Vivacqua, A.S., Gutwin, C., Borges, M.R.S. (eds) Collaboration and Technology. CRIWG 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6969. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23801-7_6

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