Refactoring Tools

Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, 2018

The drive for this report is to inaugurate the innumerable techniques espoused by the refactoring tools in coding development. The software product is a very complex and timeconsuming process of development. Difficulty understanding and maintaining poorly designed software systems Software maintenance can take up to 50% of total development costs for software production. As a modus operando, the refactoring tools purpose ultimately to amend the basis codes into an easier and more comprehensible way. Moreover, refactoring succors to check the trifle of the coding procedure. This is apparent through having deliberation on the program catalog, precision and the use of the deconstruct trees. Refactoring tools are convenient for innumerable observes done by the human beings. Software refactoring has a direct impact on reducing the cost of software maintenance by changing the internal structure of the code without changing its external behavior. So the time taken to process as well as doing a critical analysis of complex codes is reduced. This report proposes to have a precarious scrutiny on the various use including the pluses of using refactoring tools.

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions …, 2005

This paper provides an extensive overview of existing research in the field of software refactoring. This research is compared and discussed based on a number of different criteria: the refactoring activities that are supported; the specific techniques and formalisms that are used for supporting these activities; the types of software artifacts that are being refactored; the important issues that need to be taken into account when building refactoring tool support; and the effect of refactoring on the software process. A running example is used throughout the paper to explain and illustrate the main concepts.

Refactoring is a crucial process to improve the quality of software. Refactoring is part of software engineering that improves more readability of program and maintainability of the software. Refactoring is a most widely used technique that gives the code simpler, cleaner, reusable, extendable, maintainable or other characteristics by transforming a program. In programming languages, bad smell or code smell is a code or design problem that makes the software hard to understand and maintain the code. Basically, bad smells are structured characteristics of software that indicate a problem, may be need it refactoring of code. In this paper some refactoring techniques discussed that are used to remove code smells from code or program. Simulation has been done for some refactoring techniques like Rename method, Extract method, Move method, Pull up method using Eclipse tool. Eclipse refactoring tool supports the java development language. It has been observed that pull up method is better as compared to other refactoring methods because pull up method dispose the complexity and duplicate code from program.

2004

ABSTRACT In this paper we provide a detailed overview of the field of software restructuring and refactoring from a formal as well as a from a practical point of view. After summarizing refactoring's current applications and tool support, we discuss the current research on refactoring in a number of essential research questions. Lastly, we highlight the key directions in which refactoring research is moving forward.

Electronic Notes in …, 2003

In this paper we provide an extensive overview of existing research in the field of software restructuring and refactoring, from a formal as well as a practical point of view. Next, we propose an extensive list of open questions that indicate future research directions, and we provide some partial answers to these questions.

Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2021

Refactoring is a critical task in software maintenance and is commonly applied to improve system design or to cope with design defects. There are 68 different types of refactoring techniques and each technique has a particular purpose and effect. However, most prior studies have selected refactoring techniques based on their common use in academic research without obtaining evidence from the software industry. This is a shortcoming that points to the existence of a clear gap between academic research and the corresponding industry practices. Therefore, to bridge this gap, this study identified the most frequently used refactoring techniques, the commonly used programming language, and methods of applying refactoring techniques in the current practices of software refactoring among software practitioners in the industry, by using an online survey. The findings from the survey revealed the most used refactoring techniques, programming language, and the methods of applying the refactor...

2004

Proceedings First International Workshop on …, 2003

This position paper identifies emerging trends in refactoring research, and enumerates a list of open questions, from a practical as well as a theoretical point of view. We suggest these directions for further research based on our own experience with refactoring, as well as on a detailed literature survey on software refactoring.