Active support for clone refactoring: a perspective

  • Authors:
  • Norihiro Yoshida;Eunjong Choi;Katsuro Inoue

  • Affiliations:
  • Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan;Osaka University, Suita, Japan;Osaka University, Suita, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 ACM workshop on Workshop on refactoring tools
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Clone refactoring (merging duplicate code) is a promising solution to improve the maintainability of source code. In this position paper, we discuss directions towards the advancement of clone refactoring, and show a perspective of active support based on online analysis of code modification on an editor of IDE.