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One thousand and one stories : A large-scale survey of software refactoring. / Golubev, Yaroslav; Kurbatova, Zarina; Alomar, Eman Abdullah; Bryksin, Timofey; Mkaouer, Mohamed Wiem.
ESEC/FSE 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. ed. / Diomidis Spinellis. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 1303-1313.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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T1 - One thousand and one stories
T2 - 29th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2021
AU - Golubev, Yaroslav
AU - Kurbatova, Zarina
AU - Alomar, Eman Abdullah
AU - Bryksin, Timofey
AU - Mkaouer, Mohamed Wiem
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/8/20
Y1 - 2021/8/20
N2 - Despite the availability of refactoring as a feature in popular IDEs, recent studies revealed that developers are reluctant to use them, and still prefer the manual refactoring of their code. At JetBrains, our goal is to fully support refactoring features in IntelliJ-based IDEs and improve their adoption in practice. Therefore, we start by raising the following main questions. How exactly do people refactor code? What refactorings are the most popular? Why do some developers tend not to use convenient IDE refactoring tools? In this paper, we investigate the raised questions through the design and implementation of a survey targeting 1,183 users of IntelliJ-based IDEs. Our quantitative and qualitative analysis of the survey results shows that almost two-thirds of developers spend more than one hour in a single session refactoring their code; that refactoring types vary greatly in popularity; and that a lot of developers would like to know more about IDE refactoring features but lack the means to do so. These results serve us internally to support the next generation of refactoring features, as well as can help our research community to establish new directions in the refactoring usability research.
AB - Despite the availability of refactoring as a feature in popular IDEs, recent studies revealed that developers are reluctant to use them, and still prefer the manual refactoring of their code. At JetBrains, our goal is to fully support refactoring features in IntelliJ-based IDEs and improve their adoption in practice. Therefore, we start by raising the following main questions. How exactly do people refactor code? What refactorings are the most popular? Why do some developers tend not to use convenient IDE refactoring tools? In this paper, we investigate the raised questions through the design and implementation of a survey targeting 1,183 users of IntelliJ-based IDEs. Our quantitative and qualitative analysis of the survey results shows that almost two-thirds of developers spend more than one hour in a single session refactoring their code; that refactoring types vary greatly in popularity; and that a lot of developers would like to know more about IDE refactoring features but lack the means to do so. These results serve us internally to support the next generation of refactoring features, as well as can help our research community to establish new directions in the refactoring usability research.
KW - IDE Refactoring Features
KW - Refactorings
KW - Software Maintenance
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U2 - 10.1145/3468264.3473924
DO - 10.1145/3468264.3473924
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85116277217
SP - 1303
EP - 1313
BT - ESEC/FSE 2021 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
A2 - Spinellis, Diomidis
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 23 August 2021 through 28 August 2021
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