Title :
REdiffs: Refactoring-aware difference viewer for java
Author :
Hayashi, Shin´ichiro ; Thangthumachit, Sirinut ; Saeki, M.
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Comparing and understanding differences between old and new versions of source code are necessary in various software development situations. However, if changes are tangled with refactorings in a single revision, then the resulting source code differences are more complicated. We propose an interactive difference viewer which enables us to separate refactoring effects from source code differences for improving the understandability of the differences.
Keywords :
Java; software maintenance; Java; refactoring effects; refactoring-aware difference viewer; software development; source code differences; source code versions; Browsers; Electronic mail; HTML; Indexes; Java; Software; Visualization; refactoring; source code difference; tangled changes;
Conference_Titel :
Reverse Engineering (WCRE), 2013 20th Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
Koblenz
DOI :
10.1109/WCRE.2013.6671331