A Systematic Mapping of Literature on Software Refactoring Tools

Proceedings of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Information Systems Pub Date : 2018-06-04 DOI:10.1145/3229345.3229357

Cleiton Silva Tavares, Fischer Ferreira, Eduardo Figueiredo

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Refactoring consists of improving the internal structure of the code without changing the external behavior of a software system. However, the task of refactoring is very costly in the development of an information system. Thus, many tools have been proposed to support refactoring the source code. In order to find tools cited in the literature, this work presents a Systematic Literature Mapping about refactoring. As a result, this paper summarizes the refactoring tools that have been published in the last 5 years in terms of the tool profiles developed, which programming languages have support for refactoring and which are the main refactoring strategies that are handled by tools. It has been identified that publications on refactoring have remained constant over the past 5 years. Also, most of the refactoring works describe tools, being they for systems written in the Java language, that perform code refactoring automatically and the main refactorings are: Move Method, Pull Up Method, Extract Class and Code Clone. Finally, we performed an analysis of the data returned by the DBLP library. As a result, it was observed that the papers returned by the DBLP have a high level of similarity with the other research bases studied.

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软件重构工具文献的系统映射

重构包括在不改变软件系统外部行为的情况下改进代码的内部结构。然而，重构任务在信息系统的开发中是非常昂贵的。因此，已经提出了许多工具来支持重构源代码。为了找到文献中引用的工具，本工作提出了一个关于重构的系统文献映射。因此，本文总结了过去5年发布的重构工具，包括开发的工具概要，哪些编程语言支持重构，哪些是工具处理的主要重构策略。可以确定的是，在过去的5年里，关于重构的出版物一直保持不变。此外，大多数重构工作都描述了用于Java语言编写的系统的工具，这些工具可以自动执行代码重构，主要的重构有:移动方法、拉起方法、提取类和代码克隆。最后，我们对DBLP库返回的数据进行分析。因此，人们观察到，DBLP返回的论文与所研究的其他研究基地具有高度的相似性。

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