ConcernBERT: Learning Responsibilities Using Class Membership (opens in new tab)

The principles of separation of concerns, high cohesion, and single responsibility are among the most well-known in software design. However, their application often remains philosophical rather than actionable, relying heavily on developers' intuition and experience. Many software tasks, such as god class decomposition, extract class refactoring, and cohesion measurement, depend on techniques for identifying cohesive groups of program entities,...