@conference {SoetensQUATIC2010,
	title = {Studying the Effect of Refactorings: a Complexity Metrics Perspective},
	booktitle = {QUATIC 2010: The 7th International Conference on Quality in Information and Communications Technology},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
	organization = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
	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 {\textendash}-namely PMD, a Java source code analyzer{\textendash}- and discovered that periods of refactorings did not affect the cyclomatic complexity. This paper investigates this counterintuitive phenomenon through a detailed analysis of the actual source code manipulations applied on the system under study.},
	isbn = {978-0-7695-4241-6},
	doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/QUATIC.2010.58},
	url = {http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/QUATIC.2010.58},
	author = {Soetens, Quinten David and Serge Demeyer}
}
