Making Programmers Aware Of Refactorings

Modern integrated development environments, such as ECLIPSE, provide automated or semi-automated refactoring support. Despite this support, refactorings are often done manually -- either because the developer is not aware of the tool support or because he is not aware that what he did was a refactoring. Moreover, as we found in [7] programmers tend to do a bad job in documenting the refactorings they have performed or even do not document them at all. In this paper we present the design rationale of a plug-in for the ECLIPSE development platform that informs programmers about the refactorings they have performed manually and provides hyper-links to web sites describing these. The plug-in is currently under development. Finally, it should support the developer in documenting refactorings by appending an exact description of each performed refactoring to the CVS/SVN log message. For such refactorings that have been done manually, but can be performed automatically using ECLIPSE, our too...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ECOOP
• Authors: Peter Weißgerber, Benjamin Biegel, Stephan Diehl
• Keywords: ECOOP 2007, Programming Languages, Refactoring, Semi-automated Refactoring Support, Tool Support