# Can Refactoring Be Self-Affirmed? An Exploratory Study on How Developers Document Their Refactoring Activities in Commit Messages

> Research article (2019 IEEE/ACM 3rd International Workshop on Refactoring (IWoR), 2019) · cited 73× · AI/ML

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