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Software engineering

restructuring code to improve its internal quality without changing its external behavior.

In software engineering, refactoring refers to restructuring code to improve its internal quality without changing its external behavior. This meaning comes from Mens (2004) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.[1]

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Mens, T., & Tourwe, T. (2004). A survey of software refactoring. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 30(2), 126-139. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2004.1265817

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