Identification of refactoring opportunities introducing polymorphism

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 391-404

  Tsantalis, Nikolaos ^a   Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Object oriented design; Polymorphism; Refactoring; State Strategy design pattern

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PATTERNS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; REFACTORINGS; SOURCE CODES;

DESIGN; POLYMORPHISM;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 75349106264     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.09.017     Document Type: Article

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