Abstract
Refactoring is widely recognized as a method to improve the internal qualities of source code. However, manual refactoring is time-consuming and error-prone. Consequently, many tools to support automated refactoring have been suggested, but most support only unit and simple refactoring, making it difficult to perform composite refactoring (e.g., introducing a design pattern) where a refactoring set is applied at one position or the same refactoring operation is applied at multiple positions. In this paper, we propose a novel script language and its processor to describe how and where to refactor by a model expressing source code∗<sup>1</sup>. Evaluations indicate that our language and processor allow refactoring steps to be described as scripts, which can be easily replayed and reused for multiple projects.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE |
| Publisher | Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School |
| Pages | 711-716 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Volume | 2014-January |
| Edition | January |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | 26th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2014 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 2014 Jul 1 → 2014 Jul 3 |
Other
| Other | 26th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2014 |
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| Country | Canada |
| City | Vancouver |
| Period | 14/7/1 → 14/7/3 |
Keywords
- Code manipulation
- Refactoring
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software