Contemporary refactoring tools for JAVA aiding in the restructuring of programs have problems with respecting access modifiers such as public and private: while some tools provide ...
Refactoring in object-orientation has gained increased attention due to its ability to improve design quality. Refactoring using design patterns (DPs) leads to production of high ...
This paper describes a language and framework that allow coordinated transformations driven by invariants to be specified declaratively, as invariant rules, and applied automatic...
Yanhong A. Liu, Michael Gorbovitski, Scott D. Stol...
Moving program code that implements cross-cutting concerns into aspects can improve the maintainability of legacy systems. This kind of refactoring, called aspectualization, can a...