Abstract:— In application development lifecycle, specifically in test-driven development, refactoring plays a crucial role in sustaining ease. However, in-spite of bringing ease, refactoring does not ensure the desired behaviour of code after it is applied. Because refactoring tends to worsen the alignments between source code and its corresponding units. One significant solution to the aforementioned issue is the technique called unit testing. As unit testing enable the developers to confidently apply refactoring whil… Show more
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