A live environment for inspection and refactoring of software systems

Abstract

Refactoring helps to improve the design of software systems, making them more readable, maintainable, cleaner, and easy to expand. Most of the tools that already exist on this concept allow developers to select and execute the best refactoring techniques for a particular programming context. However, they aren’t interactive and prompt enough, providing a poor programming experience. In this gap, we can introduce and combine the topic of liveness with refactoring methods. Live Refactoring allows to know continuously, while programming, the blocks of code that we should refactor and why they were classified as problematic. Therefore, it shortens the time needed to create high-quality systems, due to early and continuous refactoring feedback, support, and guidance. This paper presents our research project based on a live refactoring environment. This environment is focused on a refactoring tool that aims to explore the concept of Live Refactoring and its main components --- recommendation, visualization, and application.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Fernandes:FSE21,
  author    = {Sara Fernandes},
  title     = {A live environment for inspection and refactoring of software systems},
  booktitle = {{ESEC/SIGSOFT} {FSE}},
  pages     = {1655--1659},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2021},
}

A live environment for inspection and refactoring of software systems

Abstract

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