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Sep 2026
Continuous Autonomous Refactoring: A Research Roadmap for AI-Driven Code Quality Maintenance
This paper envisions LLM-based refactoring as a continuous component of software maintenance rather than a tool invoked only for occasional manual refactoring, and presents a roadmap organized around five dimensions: the multi-objective optimization problem, quality definition and evaluation, multi-timescale integratio...
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