TXL: a rapid prototyping system for programming language dialects
Computer Languages
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
CatchUp!: capturing and replaying refactorings to support API evolution
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
How do APIs evolve? A story of refactoring: Research Articles
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice - IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2005)
Interactive transformation of java programs in eclipse
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Recommending adaptive changes for framework evolution
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Using twinning to adapt programs to alternative APIs
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
Refactoring references for library migration
Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
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The Java programming language and the Java API evolve and this evolution certainly will continue in future. Upgrade to a new version of programming language or API is nowadays usually done manually. We describe a new flexible refactoring tool for the Java programming language that can upgrade the code almost automatically. The tool performs refactoring rules described in the special language based on the abstract syntax trees. Each rule consists of two abstract syntax trees: the pattern and the rewrite. First, we search for the pattern and then replace each pattern occurrence with the rewrite. Searching and replacement is performed on the abstract syntax trees that are built and fully attributed by the Java compiler. Complete syntactic and semantic information about the source code and flexibility in refactoring rules give the tool competitive advantage over most similar tools.