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Extending Testability for Automated Refactoring

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Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP 2003)

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Abstract

Refactoring, one of XP core practices, aims at keeping the software design simple and flexible. It assumes changing internal structure of the code without influencing its functionality [1]. However, since refactoring is a costly and complex process, researchers and practitioners try to automate or semi-automate it (e.g. [2]), having in mind both decreasing the cost and preventing it from introducing new errors to the code. The automation is usually based on syntactic verification of well-known conditions that must be met to successfully apply a given transformation. Unfortunately, only a few among refactorings catalogued by Martin [4] are subject to full automation.

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  1. Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 3A, 60-965, Poznan, Poland

    Bartosz Walter

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Piazza D’Ami, 09123, Cagliari, Italy

    Michele Marchesi

  2. Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Center for Applied Software Engineering, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

    Giancarlo Succi

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Walter, B. (2003). Extending Testability for Automated Refactoring. In: Marchesi, M., Succi, G. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2675. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44870-5_71

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