Refactoring: Current Research and Future Trends

Mens, Tom; Demeyer, Serge; Bois, Bart Du; Stenten, Hans; Gorp, Pieter Van

doi:10.1016/s1571-0661(05)82624-6

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“…Altogether, the real advantages of refactoring are still to be fully assessed [24]. In particular, it is not yet clear whether refactoring increases developer productivity and the extent to which refactoring improves software quality.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Case Study on the Impact of Refactoring on Quality and Productivity in an Agile Team

Moser

Abrahamsson

Pedrycz

et al. 2008

Balancing Agility and Formalism in Software Engineering

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Abstract.Refactoring is a hot and controversial issue. Supporters claim that it helps increasing the quality of the code, making it easier to understand, modify and maintain. Moreover, there are also claims that refactoring yields higher development productivity -however, there is only limited empirical evidence of such assumption. A case study has been conducted to assess the impact of refactoring in a close-to industrial environment. Results indicate that refactoring not only increases aspects of software quality, but also improves productivity. Our findings are applicable to small teams working in similar, highly volatile domains (ours is application development for mobile devices). However, additional research is needed to ensure that this is indeed true and to generalize it to other contexts.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Case Study on the Impact of Refactoring on Quality and Productivity in an Agile Team

Moser

Abrahamsson

Pedrycz

et al. 2008

Balancing Agility and Formalism in Software Engineering

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“…3, left, depicts the respective state machine. In addition, we choose a second partitioning P 2 which distinguishes between states (1) requestingDevices ≡ wa = empty ∧ mode ∈ {init , ncd , delayed } where the NM requests devices, (2) waitForStatus ≡ wa = empty ∧ mode ∈ {init , ncd , delayed } where the NM waits for an answer, and the states (3) off and (4) cfgOk where the NM is in modes off or cfgOk. Fig.…”

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“…The context of this paper is the incremental development of models. We study one particular development step in such processes: refactoring [1,2] denotes structural transformations of a system that do not change its externally visible behavior, except maybe for memory allocation or required processor cycles. Code-based examples include the definition of a function or introduction of a common super class to avoid duplicate code.…”

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Computing Refactorings of Behavior Models

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2005

Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

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“…In [31] we give an extensive overview of the different notions of behavior. We are actively researching the formalization of program behavior, going from access-, updateand call-preservation [22] to language-preservation [32].…”

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Towards Automating Source-Consistent UML Refactorings

Gorp

Stenten

Mens

et al. 2003

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract.With the increased interest in refactoring, UML tool vendors seek ways to support software developers in applying a (sequence of) refactoring(s). The problem with such tools is that the UML metamodel -on which their repository is based -is inadequate to maintain the consistency between the model and the code while one of them gets refactored. Therefore, we propose a set of minimal extensions to the UML metamodel, which is sufficient to reason about refactoring for all common OO languages. For instance, by specifying pre-and postconditions in OCL, we are able to compose primitive refactorings, verify preservation of program behavior, and trigger refactorings based on code smells. This way, we provide future MDA tools with the ability to improve existing UML designs, yet keeping them in synch with the underlying code base.

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Refactoring: Current Research and Future Trends

Cited by 41 publications

References 35 publications

A Case Study on the Impact of Refactoring on Quality and Productivity in an Agile Team

A Case Study on the Impact of Refactoring on Quality and Productivity in an Agile Team

Computing Refactorings of Behavior Models

Towards Automating Source-Consistent UML Refactorings

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