Refactoring Techniques for Improving Software Quality: Practitioners’ Perspectives

Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance and commonly applied to improve system design or cope with defects. There are 68 different types of refactoring techniques each technique has particular purpose effect. However, most prior studies have selected based on their common use academic research without obtaining evidence from the industry. This shortcoming that points existence clear gap between corresponding industry practices. Therefore, bridge this gap, study identified frequently used techniques, programming language, methods applying current practices among practitioners industry, by using an online survey. The findings survey revealed techniques. contributes toward improvement development adding empirical developers. would be beneficial for researchers develop reference models tools guide these effect quality attributes systems as whole.