Feature oriented refactoring of legacy applications

Jia Liu, Don S. Batory, Christian Lengauer

Abstract

Feature oriented refactoring (FOR) is the process of decomposinga program into features, where a feature is an increment in programfunctionality. We develop a theory of FOR that relates code refac-toring to algebraic factoring. Our theory explains relationshipsbetween features and their implementing modules, and why fea-tures in different programs of a product-line can have differentimplementations. We describe a tool and refactoring methodologybased on our theory, and present a validating case study.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Liu-al:ICSE06,
  author    = {Jia Liu and
               Don S. Batory and
               Christian Lengauer},
  title     = {Feature oriented refactoring of legacy applications},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {112--121},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2006},
}

Feature oriented refactoring of legacy applications

Abstract

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