Code refactoring can be compared to keeping your desk or study neat. You will be less stressed and calmer if you have a clean, organized desk. When your desk is messy and unorganized, it's easier to locate your items on time. This creates a stressful environment-the actual meaning of cod...
The results of these evaluation methods can be used to indicate which parts of a software system need to be reengineered. The reengineering of these parts is usually performed using refactoring and slicing - meaning refactoring and slicing are consciously used as a means to improve the quality ...
They proposed a set of meaning-preserving restructurings to be applied in C++ programs. Each of these restructurings was called a refactoring [15]. The term was popularized by Fowler [2] after the publication of his book. Since then, the term has also been used to denote the whole process...
When we find functions with poorly organized parameters, we must reorder them in a way that allows for better readability and meaning for programmers. Examples: The following code illustrates this refactoring. Before the refactoring, we have a function area/3, responsible for calculating the area ...
The user should ensure such set is handled as "a trans- action" in the sense of atomicity and coherent meaning. In addition, the process should care for authorship and reader- ship independence. We advocate for ab- stracting the terms in which refactoring is con- Fig. 3. Merge operation...
aspects are not applied as desired. This is especially problematic for refactoring. Even though the meaning of the model has not changed, pointcut expressions may no longer match. We present an aspect-oriented modeling technique for scenarios that is refactoring-safe. The scenarios are modeled with...
The meaning of source code is often described by unit tests, as is for example the case in Test-Driven Software Development. Test-driven development is a principle in software engineering that requires developers to write tests for each method before implementing the method itself. This ensures th...
The refactorings are described in reference to AspectJ, an AOP extension of Java, and are amenable to partial or full automation. It is necessary to reevaluate existing OO refactorings because the constructs of AOP programming languages significantly aect,what changes can be meaning-preserving. To...
Russ Olsen:First let me congratulate the two of you on the publication of your book,Refactoring in Ruby. Refactoring is one of those-two sided software engineering terms: It has a very specific technical meaning, but people also tend to use it informally as a synonym for 'rewrite'. So hel...
Refactoring patterns written in imperative dialect of pLERO are more process-centric, meaning that they are intended for specification of particular steps of a refactoring process, while refactoring patterns written in functional dialect are more result-centric and facilitate understanding of a grammar's...