Refactoring: Current research and future trends

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 483-499

  Mens, Tom ^a   Demeyer, Serge ^b   Du Bois, Bart ^b   Stenten, Hans ^b   Van Gorp, Pieter ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GRAPH THEORY; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SEMANTICS;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; SOFTWARE METRICES; SOFTWARE REFACTORING; TAXONOMY;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 19044377107     PISSN: 15710661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1571-0661(05)82624-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (103)

1. Alur D., Crupi J., Malks D. "Core J2EE Patterns" 2001;Sun Microsystems Press
2. Arnold R.S. Tutorial on Software Restructuring. 1986;IEEE Press
3. Astels, D., Refactoring with UML, in: Proc. 3rd Int'l Conf. eXtreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering, 2002, pp. 67-70, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy.
4. Atkinson, C. and T. Kühne, The role of meta-modeling in MDA, in: Proc. UML 2002 Workshop on Software Model Engineering, 2002, pp. 67-70, Dresden, Germany.
5. Back R.-J. Correctness preserving program refinements. Technical Report Mathematical Centre Tracts #131. 1980;Mathematisch Centrum Amsterdam
6. Back R.-J., von Wright J. "Refinement Calculus" 1998;Springer Verlag
7. Baldan P., Corradini A., Ehrig H., Löwe M., Montanari U., Rossi F. Handbook of Graph Grammars and Graph Transformation. World scientific. 1999;107-188
8. Banerjee J., Kim W. Semantics and implementation of schema evolution in object-oriented databases. 1987;Proc. ACM SIGMOD Conference
9. Beck K. "Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change" 2000;Addison Wesley
10. Bergstein P.L. Maintenance of object-oriented systems during structural evolution. Theory and Practice of Object Systems. 3:(3):1991;185-212
11. Bergstein, P. L., Object-preserving class transformations, in: Proc. Conf. Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications (1991), pp. 299-313.
12. Binkley D., Gallagher K. Program slicing. Advances of Computing. 43:1996;1-50
13. Bodin, F., Sage++: an object-oriented toolkit and class library for building Fortran and C++ restructuring tools, in: Proc. 2nd Object-Oriented Numerics Conference, 1994, Sunriver, Oregon.
14. Boehm B. Software engineering. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 12:(25):1976;1226-1242
15. Boger, M., T. Sturm and P. Fragemann, Refactoring browser for UML, in: Proc. 3rd Int'l Conf. on eXtreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering, 2002, pp. 77-81, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy.
16. Borland, J Builder (2002). URL www.borland.com/jbuilder/
17. Bottoni P., Parisi-Presicce F., Taentzer G. Coordinated distributed diagram transformation for software evolution. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. 72:(4):2002
18. Buytaert D., Arickx F. A selective runtime compiler for the wonka virtual machine. Presentation at PACT Symposium at University of Ghent. 2002
19. Casais E. Automatic reorganization of object-oriented hierarchies: a case study. "Object Oriented Systems" 1:1994;95-115
20. Chidamber S.R., Kemerer C.F. A metrics suite for object-oriented design. IEEE Trans. Software Engineering. 20:(6):1994;476-493
21. Chikofsky E.J., Cross J.H. Reverse engineering and design recovery: A taxonomy. IEEE Software. 7:(1):1990;13-17
22. Cincom, Smalltalk VisualWorks (2002). URL www.cincomsmalltalk.com/
23. Cinnéide, M., "Automated Application of Design Patterns: A Refactoring Approach," Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, University of Dublin (2000).
24. Codagen, Codagen architect (2002). URL www.codagen.com/products/ architect/
25. Coleman D., Arnold P., Bdoff S., Gilchrist H., Hayes F., Jeremaes P. Object-oriented Development: the Fusion method. 1994;Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
26. Coleman D., Ash D., Lowther B., Oman P. Using metrics to evaluate software system maintainability. IEEE Computer. 27:(8):1994;44-49
27. Compuware, Optimalj pattern-driven generator (2002). URL http://www.compuware.com/products/optimalj/
28. Corradini A., Ehrig H., Kreowski H.-J., Rozenberg G. "Graph Transformation" 2505:2002;Springer-Verlag. Lecture Notes in Computer Science
29. Courcelle B. Graph rewriting: an algebraic and logic approach. Leeuwen J.V. Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science. Vol. B:1990;193-242
30. Cuny J., Ehrig H., Engels G., Rozenberg G. "Graph Grammars and Their Application to Computer Science" 1996;Springer-Verlag. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1073
31. Demeyer S., Ducasse S., Nierstrasz O. Finding refactorings via change metrics. Proc. Conf. Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. 35(10):2000;166-177 ACM SIGPLAN Notices
32. Demeyer S., Ducasse S., Nierstrasz O. "Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns" 2002;Morgan Kaufmann and DPunkt
33. Ducasse, S., M. Rieger and S. Demeyer, A language independent approach for detecting duplicated code, in: H. Yang and L. White, editors, Proc. Int'l Conf. Software Maintenance (1999), pp. 109-118.
34. eclipse.org, Eclipse (2002). URL www.eclipse.org/
35. Ehrig H., Engels G., Kreowski H.-J., Rozenberg G. "Theory and Application to Graph Transformations" 2000;Springer-Verlag. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1764
36. Engels G., Hartmut E., Rozenberg G. "Special Issue on Graph Transformations," Fundamenta Informaticae. 26(3,4):1996;. IOS Press
37. Fanta, R. and V. Rajlich, Restructuring legacy C code into C++, in: Proc. Int'l Conf. Software Maintenance (1999), pp. 77-85.
38. Fenton N., Pfleeger S.L. "Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach" second edition :1997;International Thomson Computer Press, London, UK
39. Flater, D., Impact of model-driven standards, in: 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9 (2002), p. 285.
40. Fowler M. "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Programs" 1999;Addison-Wesley
41. Fraser C.W., Hanson D.R., Proebsting T.A. Engineering a simple, efficient code-generator generator. ACM Letters on Programming Languages and Systems. 1:1992;213-226
42. Gamma E., Helm R., Johnson R., Vlissides J. "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Languages and Systems" 1994;Addison-Wesley
43. Ganter B., Wille R. "Formal Concept Analysis: Mathematical Foundations" 1999;Springer-Verlag
44. Glass R.L. Maintenance: Less is not more. IEEE Software. 15:(4):1998;67-68
45. Goguen, J., Hidden algebra for software engineering, in: Proc. Conf. Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Australian Computer Science Communications 21 (1999), pp. 35-59.
46. Graham W. extreme programming in a hostile environment. Sessionpaper at Int. Conf. on eXtreme Programming. 2002
47. Griswold W.G. "Program Restructuring as an Aid to Software Maintenance," Ph.D. thesis. 1991;University of Washington
48. Griswold, W. G., M. I. Chen, R. W. Bowdidge and J. D. Morgenthaler, Tool support for planning the restructuring of data abstractions in large systems, in: Proc. 4th Symp. Foundations of Software Engineering, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 21(6) (1996), pp. 33-45.
49. Guimaraes T. Managing application program maintenance expenditure. Comm. ACM. 26:(10):1983;739-746
50. Heckel R., Küster J.M., Taentzer G. Confluence of typed attributed graph transformation systems. Graph Transformation. 2505:2002;161-176. Lecture Notes in Computer Science
51. Henderson-Sellers B. "Object-Oriented Metrics: Measures of Complexity" 1996;Prentice-Hall
52. Instantiations, jFactor (2002). URL www.instantiations.com/jfactor/
53. IntelliJ, IDEA (2002). URL www.intellij.com/idea/
54. Jahnke, J. H. and A. Zündorf, Rewriting poor design patterns by good design patterns, in: S. Demeyer and H. Gall, editors, Proc. of ESEC/FSE '97 Workshop on Object-Oriented Reengineering, Technical University of Vienna, 1997, Technical Report TUV-1841-97-10.
55. Kataoka, Y., M. D. Ernst, W. G. Griswold and D. Notkin, Automated support for program refactoring using invariants, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (2001), pp. 736-743.
56. Komondoor R., Horwitz S. Semantics-preserving procedure extraction. Technical report, Computer Sciences Department. 2000;University of Wisconsin-Madison
57. Lakhotia A., Deprez J.-C. Restructuring programs by tucking statements into functions. Harman M., Gallagher K. Special Issue on Program Slicing. 1998;677-689 Information and Software Technology 40, Elsevier
58. Lanubile F., Visaggio G. Extracting reusable functions by flow graph-based program slicing. Trans. Software Engineering. 23:(4):1997;246-258
59. Leitão, A.M., A formal pattern language for refactoring of Lisp programs, in: Proc. 6th European Conf. Software Maintenance and Reengineering (2002), pp. 186-192.
60. Lientz B.P., Swanson E.B. "Software maintenance management: a study of the maintenance of computer application software in 487 data processing organizations," 1980;Addison-Wesley
61. Lindholm T., Yellin F. "The Java Virtual Machine Specification" 1996;Addison Wesley
62. Mens K., Michiels I., Wuyts R. Supporting software development through declaratively codified programming patterns. Journal on Expert Systems with Applications. 23:2002;405-431
63. Mens T. "A Formal Foundation for Object-Oriented Software Evolution," Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer Science. 1999;Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
64. Mens, T., Conditional graph rewriting as a domain-independent formalism for software evolution, in: Proc. Int'l Conf. Agtive 1999: Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1779 (2000), pp. 127-143.
65. Mens, T., A formal foundation for object-oriented software evolution, in: Proc. Int'l Conf. Software Maintenance (2001), pp. 549-552.
66. Mens T. Transformational software evolution by assertions. 2001;CSMR Workshop on Formal Foundations of Software Evolution, Lisbon
67. Mens T. A state-of-the-art survey on software merging. IEEE Trans. Software Engineering. 28:(5):2002;449-462
68. Mens, T., J. Buckley, A. Rashid and M. Zenger, Towards a taxonomy of software evolution, in: Proc. Workshop on Unanticipated Software Evolution, 2003, Warshau, Poland.
69. Mens T., Demeyer S., Janssens D. Formalising behaviour preserving program transformations. Graph Transformation. 2505:2002;286-301. Lecture Notes in Computer Science
70. Meyer B. "Object-Oriented Software Construction" second edition :1997;Prentice Hall
71. Moore I. Automatic inheritance hierarchy restructuring and method refactoring. Proc. Int'l Conf. OOPSLA '96. 1996;235-250 ACM SIGPLAN Notices
72. Nagl M., Schürr A., Münch M. "Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance" 1779:2000;Springer-Verlag. Lecture Notes in Computer Science
73. Opdyke W.F. "Refactoring: A Program Restructuring Aid in Designing Object-Oriented Application Frameworks," Ph.D. thesis. 1992;University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
74. Opdyke, W. F., Refactoring C++ programs, Technical report, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs (1999). URL st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/opdyke/wfo.990201. c++.refac.html
75. Philipps, J. and B. Rumpe, Refinement of information flow architectures, in: M. Hinchey, editor, Proc. ICFEM'97 (1997).
76. Philipps, J. and B. Rumpe, Roots of refactoring, in: K. Baclavski and H. Kilov, editors, Proc. 10th OOPSLA Workshop on Behavioral Semantics (2001), Tampa Bay, Florida, USA. URL www4.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/papers/PR01.html
77. Rajlich, V., A model for change propagation based on graph rewriting, in: Proc. Int'l Conf. Software Maintenance (1997), pp. 84-91.
78. Roberts D. "Practical Analysis for Refactoring," Ph.D. thesis. 1999;University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
79. Roberts D., Brant J., Johnson R. A refactoring tool for Smalltalk. Theory and Practice of Object Systems. 3:(4):1997;253-263
80. Scholz P. "Design of reactive systems and their distributed implementation with statecharts," Ph.D. thesis. 1998;Technische Universität München
81. Schulz B., Genssler T., Mohr B., Zimmer W. On the computer aided introduction of design pattern into object-oriented systems. Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems. 1998;258-267
82. Siegel, J. and OMG Staff Strategy Group, Developing in OMG's model-driven architecture, Technical Report White Paper Revision 2.6, Object Management Group (2001).
83. Simmonds, J. and T. Mens, A comparison of software refactoring tools, Technical Report vub-prog-tr-02-15, Programming Technology Lab (2002).
84. Simon, F., F. Steinbrückner and C. Lewerentz, Metrics based refactoring, in: Proc. European Conf. Software Maintenance and Reengineering (2001), pp. 30-38.
85. Snelting, G. and F. Tip, Reengineering class hierarchies using concept analysis, in: Proc. Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-6), SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 23(6) (1998), pp. 99-110.
86. Sunyé, G., D. Pollet, Y. LeTraon and J.-M. Jézéquel, Refactoring UML models, in: Proc. UML 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2185 (2001), pp. 134-138.
87. Tahvildari, L. and K. Kontogiannis, A methodology for developing transformations using the maintainability soft-goal graph, in: In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) (2002), pp. 77-86.
88. Thompson S., Reinke C. Refactoring functional programs, Technical report, Computing Laboratory. 2001;University of Kent
89. Tichelaar S. "Modeling Object-Oriented Software for Reverse Engineering and Refactoring," Ph.D. thesis. 2001;University of Berns
90. Tip F. A survey of program slicing techniques. Journal of Programming Languages. 3:(3):1995;121-189
91. TogetherSoft, ControlCenter (2002). URL www.togethersoft.com/
92. Tokuda, L. and D. Batory, Automated software evolution via design pattern transformations, in: Proc. 3rd Int. Symp. Applied Corporate Computing, 1995.
93. Tokuda L., Batory D. Evolving object-oriented designs with refactorings. Automated Software Engineering. 8:(1):2001;89-120
94. Tonella P. Concept analysis for module restructuring. Trans. Software Engineering. 27:(4):2001;351-363
95. Tourwé T. "Automated Support for Framework-Based Software Evolution," Ph.D. thesis. 2002;Vrije Universiteit Brussel
96. Tourwé, T. and T. Mens, Automatically identifying refactoring opportunities using logic meta programming, in: Proc. Int'l Conf. Software Maintenance and Re-engineering (CSMR), 2003.
97. van Deursen, A. and T. Kuipers, Identifying objects using cluster and concept analysis (1998).
98. van Deursen, A. and L. Moonen, The video store revisited - thoughts on refactoring and testing, in: Proc. 3rd Int'l Conf. eXtreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering, 2002, pp. 71-76, Alghero, Sardinia, Italy.
99. van Deursen, A., L. Moonen, A. van den Bergh and G. Kok, Refactoring test code, in: M. Marchesi, editor, Proc. 2nd Int'l Conf. eXtreme Programming and Flexible Processes, 2001.
100. van Winsen, P., "(Re)engineering with object-oriented design patterns," Master's thesis, Universiteit Utrecht (1996).
101. Wege, C. and M. Lippert, Diagnosing evolution in test-infected code, in: Succi, G, Marchesi, M. (eds.): Extreme Programming Examined, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. eXtreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering (2001), pp. 127-131.
102. Wirth N. Program development by stepwise refinement. Comm. ACM. 14:1971;221-227
103. XRef-Tech, XRefactory (2002). URL xref-tech.com/speller/