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Code refactoring usually generates problems in other parts of the code that had already been validated. A solution is to use an anticipated test design methodology, where unit tests are first created to each module/class/method before their modification. Thus, developers are able to ensure the correct execution of functions after their refactoring. Our work applies this strategy to the development of a set of libraries that are used in several other projects. As developers have to modify the initial implementation of these libraries, to adapt such libraries to different needs, it is important to ensure that the libraries’ functions are still properly working and verify if the efficiency of the algorithms was modified. Results show that this approach has increased the confidence of developers in modifying a library and generating several implementations of such library, so that the best implementation could be selected using the same set of unit tests.
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The authors would like to thank the support received from the SIDI/Samsung team, in particular to Helder Pinho. Professor Fabio Q. B. da Silva holds a research grant from the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), project #314523/2009-0.
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Siebra, C. et al. (2018). Anticipated Test Design and Its Application to Evaluate and Select Embedded Libraries. In: Lee, R. (eds) Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications. SERA 2017. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 722. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61388-8_4
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