Automated refactoring using design differencing

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 43-52

  Moghadam, Iman Hemati ^a   Cinnéide, Mel Ó ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Automated design improvement; Design differencing; Refactoring tool; Search based refactoring

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DESIGN IMPROVEMENT; DESIGN CHANGE; DESIGN EROSION; DESIGN MODELS; JAVA APPLICATIONS; OPEN SOURCES; PROGRAM SOURCE CODES; REFACTORING TOOLS; REFACTORINGS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE-BASED; SOURCE CODES; TO EFFECT; UML CLASS MODELS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; EROSION; REENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84860532793     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2012.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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