DocumentCode
647247
Title
REdiffs: Refactoring-aware difference viewer for java
Author
Hayashi, Shin´ichiro ; Thangthumachit, Sirinut ; Saeki, M.
Author_Institution
Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan
fYear
2013
fDate
14-17 Oct. 2013
Firstpage
487
Lastpage
488
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Reverse Engineering (WCRE), 2013 20th Working Conference on
Conference_Location
Koblenz
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WCRE.2013.6671331
Filename
6671331
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