Ranking Refactoring Patterns Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process

Piveta, Eduardo Kessler; Moreira, Ana; Pimenta, Marcelo Soares; Araújo, João; Guerreiro, Pedro; Price, Roberto Tom

doi:10.5220/0001686001950200

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 2008

DOI: 10.5220/0001686001950200

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Ranking Refactoring Patterns Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process

Eduardo Kessler Piveta

Ana Moreira

Marcelo Soares Pimenta³

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Abstract: Abstract:This paper describes how to rank refactoring patterns to improve a set of quality attributes of a piece of software. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to express the relative importance of the quality attributes and the relative importance of refactoring patterns in regards to those selected quality attributes. This ranking of refactoring patterns can be used to focus the refactoring effort on the most beneficial patterns to the software being developed or maintained.

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Ranking the refactoring Techniques Based on the Internal Quality Attributes

Alshehri¹,

Benedicenti²

2014

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The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) has been applied in many fields and especially to complex engineering problems and applications. The AHP is capable of structuring decision problems and finding mathematically determined judgments built on knowledge and experience. This suggests that AHP should prove useful in agile software development where complex decisions occur routinely. In this paper, the AHP is used to rank the refactoring techniques based on the internal code quality attributes. XP encourages applying the refactoring where the code smells bad. However, refactoring may consume more time and efforts.So, to maximize the benefits of the refactoring in less time and effort, AHP has been applied to achieve this purpose. It was found that ranking the refactoring techniques helped the XP team to focus on the technique that improve the code and the XP development process in general.

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Ranking the refactoring Techniques Based on the Internal Quality Attributes

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Benedicenti²

2014

IJSEA

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Ranking Refactoring Patterns Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process

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