What motivate software engineers to refactor source code? evidences from professional developers

Yi Wang. What motivate software engineers to refactor source code? evidences from professional developers. In 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2009), September 20-26, 2009, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. pages 413-416, IEEE, 2009. [doi]

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  title = {What motivate software engineers to refactor source code? evidences from professional developers},
  author = {Yi Wang},
  year = {2009},
  doi = {10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306290},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306290},
  tags = {source-to-source, peer-to-peer, open-source},
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  pages = {413-416},
  booktitle = {25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2009), September 20-26, 2009, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada},
  publisher = {IEEE},
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