In our very recent work, we have examined one fundamental question in software maintenance community: “Can writting clean new code improve the quality of a codebase, or refactoring is the only way to do it?”
Our perspective and empirical evidence come with our IEEE Transactions on Software engineering pre-print: https://lnkd.in/dURv622
Along with: George Digkas, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, and Paris Avgeriou
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