Making Your Code Agile with Refactoring: An Agile Software Development Technology

This paper provides an extensive overview of existing research in the field of software refactoring. This research is compared and discussed based on a number of different criteria: the refactoring activities that are supported, the specific techniques and formalisms that are used for supporting the...

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Published in:International journal of advanced research in computer science 2011-07, Vol.2 (4)
Main Author: Goyal, Saumya
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer science
Evolution & development
Modularity
Software development
Software quality
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Summary:This paper provides an extensive overview of existing research in the field of software refactoring. This research is compared and discussed based on a number of different criteria: the refactoring activities that are supported, the specific techniques and formalisms that are used for supporting these activities, the types of software artifacts that are being refactored, the important issues that need to be taken into account when building refactoring tool support, and the effect of refactoring on the software process.
ISSN:0976-5697