A Live Environment to Improve the Refactoring Experience

Companion Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming Pub Date : 2022-03-21 DOI:10.1145/3532512.3535222

Sara Fernandes, Ademar Aguiar, André Restivo

{"title":"A Live Environment to Improve the Refactoring Experience","authors":"Sara Fernandes, Ademar Aguiar, André Restivo","doi":"10.1145/3532512.3535222","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Refactoring helps improve the design of software systems, making them more understandable, readable, maintainable, cleaner, and self-explanatory. Many refactoring tools allow developers to select and execute the best refactorings for their code. However, most of them lack quick and continuous feedback, support, and guidance, leading to a poor refactoring experience. To fill this gap, we are researching ways to increase liveness in refactoring. Live Refactoring consists of continuously knowing, in real-time, what and why to refactor. To explore the concept of Live Refactoring and its main components — recommendation, visualization, and application, we prototyped a Live Refactoring Environment focused on the Extract Method refactoring. With it, developers can receive recommendations about the best refactoring options and have support to apply them automatically. This work helped us reinforce the hypothesis that early and continuous refactoring feedback helps to shorten the time needed to create high-quality systems.","PeriodicalId":245819,"journal":{"name":"Companion Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Companion Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3532512.3535222","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Refactoring helps improve the design of software systems, making them more understandable, readable, maintainable, cleaner, and self-explanatory. Many refactoring tools allow developers to select and execute the best refactorings for their code. However, most of them lack quick and continuous feedback, support, and guidance, leading to a poor refactoring experience. To fill this gap, we are researching ways to increase liveness in refactoring. Live Refactoring consists of continuously knowing, in real-time, what and why to refactor. To explore the concept of Live Refactoring and its main components — recommendation, visualization, and application, we prototyped a Live Refactoring Environment focused on the Extract Method refactoring. With it, developers can receive recommendations about the best refactoring options and have support to apply them automatically. This work helped us reinforce the hypothesis that early and continuous refactoring feedback helps to shorten the time needed to create high-quality systems.

查看原文本刊更多论文

改善重构体验的实时环境

重构有助于改进软件系统的设计，使它们更易于理解、可读、可维护、更清晰、更自解释。许多重构工具允许开发人员为他们的代码选择并执行最佳的重构。然而，他们中的大多数缺乏快速和持续的反馈、支持和指导，导致了糟糕的重构体验。为了填补这一空白，我们正在研究提高重构活动性的方法。实时重构包括持续实时地了解重构的内容和原因。为了探索实时重构的概念及其主要组成部分——推荐、可视化和应用，我们构建了一个专注于提取方法重构的实时重构环境原型。有了它，开发人员可以收到有关最佳重构选项的建议，并获得自动应用这些选项的支持。这项工作帮助我们强化了这样一个假设，即早期和持续的重构反馈有助于缩短创建高质量系统所需的时间。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Companion Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming

自引率

0.00%

发文量