Making program refactoring safer

  • Authors:
  • Gustavo Soares

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal University of Campina Grande

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Automated refactorings may change the program behavior. We propose an approach and its implementation called SafeRefactor for making program refactoring safer. We applied 10 Eclipse refactorings in a number of automatically generated programs, and used SafeRefactor to identify 50 bugs that lead to behavioral changes or compilation errors.