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Refactoring Tools: Fitness for Purpose

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Emerson Murphy-Hill,

Andrew P. BlackAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Software, Volume 25, Issue 5

Pages 38 - 44

https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2008.123

Published: 01 September 2008 Publication History

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Refactoring tools can improve the speed and accuracy with which developers create and maintain software—but only if they are used. In practice, tools are not used as much as they could be; this seems to be because sometimes they do not align with the refactoring tactic preferred by most programmers, a tactic the authors call "floss refactoring." They propose five principles that characterize successful floss-refactoring tools—principles that can help programmers to choose the most appropriate refactoring tools and also help toolsmiths to design tools that fit the programmer's purpose.

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Refactoring Tools: Fitness for Purpose
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering

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IEEE Software Volume 25, Issue 5

September 2008

92 pages

ISSN:0740-7459

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