Inline method considered helpful: an approach to interface evolution

Authors:
Tammo Freese
Affiliations:
OFFIS, Escherweg, Oldenburg, Germany
Venue:
XP'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Extreme programming and agile processes in software engineering
Year:
2003

Citing 4
Cited 1

Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software

Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code

Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Test Driven Development: By Example

Test Driven Development: By Example
Public versus Published Interfaces

IEEE Software

Refactoring-aware version control

Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

While Extract Method is generally considered one of the most useful refactorings, the inverse refactoring Inline Method is so far only documented for removing methods whose bodies are as clear as their names. This paper outlines an approach how Inline Method may be used in changing method signatures and behavior. Furthermore, it proposes how the approach may simplify evolving published interfaces as well as merging parallel source code changes in next generation software configuration management tools.