Refactoring Detection based on UMLDiff Change-Facts Queries

Author

Xing, Zhenchang ; Stroulia, Eleni

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta.

fYear

2006

fDate

Oct. 2006

Firstpage

263

Lastpage

274

Abstract

Refactoring is an important activity in the evolutionary development of object-oriented software systems. Several IDEs today support the automated application of some refactorings; at the same time, there is substantial on-going research aimed at developing support for deciding when and how software should be refactored and for estimating the effect of the refactoring on the quality requirements of the software. On the other hand, understanding the refactorings in the evolutionary history of a software system is essential in understanding its design rationale. Yet, only very limited support exists for detecting refactorings. In this paper, we present our approach for detecting refactorings by analyzing the system evolution at the design level. We evaluate our method with case studies, examining two realistic examples of object-oriented software

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; object-oriented programming; software maintenance; software quality; UMLDiff change-facts queries; object-oriented software; refactoring detection; Algorithm design and analysis; Cloning; Concrete; Documentation; History; Reverse engineering; Software design; Software quality; Software systems; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 2006. WCRE '06. 13th Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Benevento

ISSN

1095-1350

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2719-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.2006.48

Filename

4023996