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Tools for a successful refactoring

Emerson Murphy-Hill, Andrew P. Black

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Abstract

Although refactoring tools have been integrated into numerous development environments over the past ten years, we have seen little variation in the human interfaces to refactoring tools – when a refactoring fails, most tools present a textual error message. Existing interfaces can cause programmers to refactor slowly, conservatively, and in an error-prone manner. In this demonstration, we will show how our tools can help programmers overcome barriers to a successful refactoring.

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Although refactoring tools have been integrated into numerous development environments over the past ten years, we have seen little variation in the human interfaces to refactoring tools – when a refactoring fails, most tools present a textual error message. Existing interfaces can cause programmers to refactor slowly, conservatively, and in an error-prone manner. In this demonstration, we will show how our tools can help programmers overcome barriers to a successful refactoring.

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Although refactoring tools have been integrated into numerous development environments over the past ten years, we have seen little variation in the human interfaces to refactoring tools – when a refactoring fails, most tools present a textual error message. Existing interfaces can cause programmers to refactor slowly, conservatively, and in an error-prone manner. In this demonstration, we will show how our tools can help programmers overcome barriers to a successful refactoring.

Key concepts: Code refactoring, Computer science, Software engineering, Programming language, Software

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