LiveRef: a Tool for Live Refactoring Java Code

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2022

Authors

Fernandes, S (Author) FEUP; Ademar Aguiar (Author) FEUP; André Restivo (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2022, Rochester, MI, USA, October 10-14, 2022

7th International Workshop on Sensor-Based Activity Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, iWOAR 2022

19 September 2022 through 20 September 2022

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Authenticus ID: P-00X-PDZ

DOI: 10.1145/3551349.3559532

Abstract (EN): Refactoring software can be hard and time-consuming. Several refactoring tools assist developers in reaching more readable and maintainable code. However, most of them are characterized by long feedback loops that impoverish their refactoring experience. We believe that we can reduce this problem by focusing on the concept of Live Refactoring and its main principles: the live recommendation and continuous visualization of refactoring candidates, and the immediate visualization of results from applying a refactoring to the code. Therefore, we implemented a Live Refactoring Environment that identifies, suggests, and applies Extract Method refactorings. To evaluate our approach, we carried out an empirical experiment. Early results showed us that our refactoring environment improves several code quality aspects, being well received, understood, and used by the experiment participants. The source code of our tool is available on: https://github.com/saracouto1318/LiveRef. Its demonstration video can be found at: https://youtu.be/_jxx21ZiQ0o.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4