An empirical investigation of how and why developers rename identifiers

Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Michael John Decker, Christian D. Newman. An empirical investigation of how and why developers rename identifiers. In Ali Ouni 0001, Marouane Kessentini, Mel Ó Cinnéide, editors, Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Refactoring, IWoR@ASE 2018, Montpellier, France, September 4, 2018. pages 26-33, IWoR@ACM, 2018. [doi]

@inproceedings{PerumaMDN18,
  title = {An empirical investigation of how and why developers rename identifiers},
  author = {Anthony Peruma and Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer and Michael John Decker and Christian D. Newman},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.1145/3242163.3242169},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3242163.3242169},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/PerumaMDN18},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {26-33},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Refactoring, IWoR@ASE 2018, Montpellier, France, September 4, 2018},
  editor = {Ali Ouni 0001 and Marouane Kessentini and Mel Ó Cinnéide},
  publisher = {IWoR@ACM},
}