Live Software Inspection and Refactoring

• Type: National Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2020

Authors

André Restivo (Author) FEUP; Ademar Aguiar (Author) FEUP; Sara Fernandes (Author) Other

Publisher

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Aachen

Conference National

SEDES, Software Engineering Doctoral Symposium

Algarve, Portugal, 2020-09-08

Other information

Abstract (EN): With the increasing complexity of software systems, software developers would benefit from instant and continuous guidance about the system they are maintaining and evolving. Despite existing several solutions providing feedback and suggesting improvements, many tools require explicit invocation, leading to developers missing improvement opportunities, such as important refactorings, due to lost of train of thought. Therefore, to address these limitations, we propose an approach where developers receive instant and continuous feedback about their software systems. This guidance would include the detection of code smells and the suggestion of refactorings to improve the system, justified by relevant software quality metrics related to the recommendations. This research aims to improve the experience of developing and maintaining software systems by providing a live environment for continuous inspection and refactoring of software systems, that is informative, responsive, and tactically predictive, and thus helping developers to identify and solve quality problems in a quicker and better way.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific