Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and RefactoringBest Mining Challenge Paper Award
Tue 24 May 2022 09:53 - 10:01 at Room 315+316 - Blended Technical Session 3 (Smells and Maintenance) Chair(s): Andy Zaidman
To meet project timelines or budget constraints, developers intentionally deviate from writing optimal code to feasible code in what is known as incurring Technical Debt (TD). Furthermore, as part of planning their correction, developers document these deficiencies as comments in the code (i.e., self-admitted technical debt or SATD). As a means of improving source code quality, developers often apply a series of refactoring operations to their codebase. In this study, we explore developers repaying this debt through refactoring operations by examining occurrences of SATD removal in the code of 76 open-source Java systems. Our findings show that TD payment usually occurs with refactoring activities and developers refactor their code to remove TD for specific reasons. We envision our findings supporting vendors in providing tools to better support developers in the automatic repayment of technical debt.
Wed 18 MayDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
12:00 - 12:50 | Mining ChallengeMining Challenge / Technical Papers at MSR Main room - even hours Chair(s): Steffen Herbold TU Clausthal | ||
12:00 4mTalk | An Exploratory Study on Refactoring Documentation in Issues Handling Mining Challenge Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec Pre-print | ||
12:04 4mTalk | Between JIRA and GitHub: ASFBot and its Influence on Human Comments in Issue Trackers Mining Challenge Ambarish Moharil Eindhoven University of Technology, Dmitrii Orlov Eindhoven University of Technology, Samar Jameel Eindhoven University of Technology, Tristan Trouwen Eindhoven University of Technology, Nathan Cassee Eindhoven University of Technology, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology Pre-print | ||
12:08 4mTalk | Is Refactoring Always a Good Egg? Exploring the Interconnection Between Bugs and Refactorings Mining Challenge File Attached | ||
12:12 4mTalk | On the Co-Occurrence of Refactoring of Test and Source Code Mining Challenge Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:16 4mTalk | Refactoring Debt: Myth or Reality? An Exploratory Study on the Relationship Between Technical Debt and RefactoringBest Mining Challenge Paper Award Mining Challenge Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec Pre-print Media Attached | ||
12:20 4mTalk | Studying the Impact of Continuous Delivery Adoption on Bug-Fixing Time in Apache’s Open-Source Projects Mining Challenge Carlos Diego Andrade de Almeida Federal University of Ceará, Diego N. Feijó Federal University of Ceará, Lincoln Souza Rocha Federal University of Ceará Media Attached | ||
12:24 4mTalk | Which bugs are missed in code reviews: An empirical study on SmartSHARK dataset Mining Challenge fatemeh khoshnoud Department of Computer Science and Engineering and IT; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Ali Rezaei Nasab Department of Computer Science and Engineering and IT; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Zahra Toudeji Department of Computer Science and Engineering and IT; School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shiraz University, Ashkan Sami Shiraz University | ||
12:28 22mLive Q&A | Discussions and Q&A Technical Papers | ||