NDLI: Refactoring Practice: How it is and How it Should be Supported

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Zhenchang Xing Stroulia, E.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta. (Zhenchang Xing; Stroulia, E.)
Abstract	Refactoring is an important activity in the evolutionary development of object-oriented software systems. Yet, several questions about the practice of refactoring remain unanswered, such as what fraction of code modifications are refactorings and what are the most frequent types of refactorings. To gain some insight in this matter, we conducted a detailed case study on the structural evolution of Eclipse, an integrated-development environment (IDE) and a plugin-based framework. Our study indicates that: 1) about 70% of structural changes may be due to refactorings; 2) for about 60% of these changes, the references to the affected entities in a component-based application can be automatically updated by a refactoring-migration tool if the relevant information of refactored components can be gathered through the refactoring engine; and 3) state-of-the-art IDEs, such as Eclipse, support only a subset of commonly applied low-level refactorings and lack support for more complex ones, which are also frequent. Based on our findings, we draw some conclusions on high-level design requirements for a refactoring-based development environment
Sponsorship	IEEE CPS
Starting Page	458
Ending Page	468
File Size	199132
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769523544
ISSN	10636773
DOI	10.1109/ICSM.2006.52
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-09-24
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Software systems Application software Engines Object oriented modeling Software design Costs Documentation Large-scale systems Algorithm design and analysis Software packages
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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