Historef: A tool for edit history refactoring

Author

Hayashi, Shinpei ; Hoshino, Daiki ; Matsuda, Jumpei ; Saeki, Motoshi ; Omori, Takayuki ; Maruyama, Katsuhisa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2015

fDate

2-6 March 2015

Firstpage

469

Lastpage

473

Abstract

This paper presents Historef, a tool for automating edit history refactoring on Eclipse IDE for Java programs. The aim of our history refactorings is to improve the understandability and/or usability of the history without changing its whole effect. Historef enables us to apply history refactorings to the recorded edit history in the middle of the source code editing process by a developer. By using our integrated tool, developers can commit the refactored edits into underlying SCM repository after applying edit history refactorings so that they are easy to manage their changes based on the performed edits.

Keywords

Java; configuration management; programming environments; software maintenance; software management; source code (software); Eclipse IDE; Historef; Java program; SCM repository; edit history refactoring; integrated tool; source code editing process; understandability; usability; Color; Electronic mail; History; Java; Usability; refactoring; software evolution; tangled changes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SANER.2015.7081858

Filename

7081858