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Many refactorings are simple but tedious, which makes them good candidates for automation. Common refactorings include renaming identifiers, moving code between classes or functions, and encapsulating variables. Most int...

The motivation of this work comes from a Global Climate Model (GCM) Software which was in great need of being updated. This software was implemented by scientists in the ’80s as a result of meteorological research. Wri...

This thesis is based on a certain type of legacy software that came from scientific research. Scientists have become one of the most important legacy code producers for many reasons. One of these is long-lived field (abo...

The C preprocessor is heavily used in C programs because it provides useful and even necessary additions to the C language. Since preprocessor directives are not part of C, they are removed before parsing and program ana...

Inheritance is one of the most important object-oriented mechanisms, allowing code reuse and a conceptual hierachical modelling of a given domain. However, as a white-box reuse mechanism, it introduces hidden (implicit)...