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@inproceedings{Soetens2010Quatic,
author = {Quinten David Soetens and Serge Demeyer},
booktitle = {Proceedings {QUATIC}'10 (7th International Conference
on the Quality of Information and Communications
Technology)},
month = sep,
note = {Acceptance ratio: 30/140 = 21.4\%},
publisher = {{IEEE} Press},
title = {Studying the Effect of Refactorings: a Complexity
Metrics Perspective},
year = {2010},
abstract = {Refactoring is widely recognized as a way to improve
the internal structure of a software system in order
to ensure its long-term maintainability.
Consequently, software projects which adopt
refactoring practices should see reductions in the
complexity of their code base. We evaluated this
assumption on an open source system --- namely PMD},
annote = {internationalconference},
}