Program restructuring as an aid to software maintenance
Program restructuring as an aid to software maintenance
Refactoring object-oriented frameworks
Refactoring object-oriented frameworks
A refactoring tool for Smalltalk
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Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
A case for source-level transformations in MATLAB
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Refactoring with wrangler, updated: data and process refactorings, and integration with eclipse
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Clone detection and removal for Erlang/OTP within a refactoring environment
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SECSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering
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PPDP '09 Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Principles and practice of declarative programming
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Refactoring Support for Modularity Maintenance in Erlang
SCAM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation
Refactoring using type constraints
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Staged static techniques to efficiently implement array copy semantics in a MATLAB JIT compiler
CC'11/ETAPS'11 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Compiler construction: part of the joint European conferences on theory and practice of software
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Tool-supported refactoring for JavaScript
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A domain-specific language for scripting refactorings in erlang
FASE'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
A Comprehensive Approach to Naming and Accessibility in Refactoring Java Programs
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Matlab is a very popular dynamic "scripting" language for numerical computations used by scientists, engineers and students world-wide. Matlab programs are often developed incrementally using a mixture of Matlab scripts and functions, and frequently build upon existing code which may use outdated features. This results in programs that could benefit from refactoring, especially if the code will be reused and/or distributed. Despite the need for refactoring, there appear to be no Matlab refactoring tools available. Furthermore, correct refactoring of Matlab is quite challenging because of its non-standard rules for binding identifiers. Even simple refactorings are non-trivial. This paper presents the important challenges of refactoring Matlab along with automated techniques to handle a collection of refactorings for Matlab functions and scripts including: converting scripts to functions, extracting functions, and converting dynamic function calls to static ones. The refactorings have been implemented using the McLab compiler framework, and an evaluation is given on a large set of Matlab benchmarks which demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach.