DocumentCode
887843
Title
A survey of software refactoring
Author
Mens, Tom ; Tourwé, Tom
Author_Institution
Univ. de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium
Volume
30
Issue
2
fYear
2004
fDate
2/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
126
Lastpage
139
Abstract
We provide an extensive overview of existing research in the field of software refactoring. This research is compared and discussed based on a number of different criteria: the refactoring activities that are supported, the specific techniques and formalisms that are used for supporting these activities, the types of software artifacts that are being refactored, the important issues that need to be taken into account when building refactoring tool support, and the effect of refactoring on the software process. A running example is used to explain and illustrate the main concepts.
Keywords
bibliographies; object-oriented programming; programming environments; reverse engineering; software maintenance; software quality; software reusability; coding technique; coding tools; construction tool; programming environment; reverse engineering; software refactoring; Buildings; Costs; Programming environments; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance; Software quality; Software reusability; Software tools; Spirals; Taxonomy;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0098-5589
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TSE.2004.1265817
Filename
1265817
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