A validation of stability metrics
SEA '07 Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
Towards an appropriate software refactoring tool support
ACS'09 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Applied computer science
A test case refactoring approach for pattern-based software development
Software Quality Control
Automated refactoring to the Strategy design pattern
Information and Software Technology
Dynamic profiling-based approach to identifying cost-effective refactorings
Information and Software Technology
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Software often need to be modified for accommodating requirements changes through the software life cycle.To deal with several accidental requirements changes related to software maintenance, a systematic and safe approach to modifying softwares is needed.The design patterns provide a high degree of design flexibility for such accidental requirements changes.In this paper, we propose an automated approach to refactoring based on design patterns in Java programs.In our approach, for a particular design pattern, we define an inference rule to automatically identify a set of candidate spots and a refactoring strategy to transform one of the set of candidate spots into the desired design pattern structure.A candidate spot may be a class or a set of classes to which the design patterns can be applied.We believe that our approach would be helpful to the maintainers in the sense that much of manual analysis on source code can be reduced, and the fashion of automated program transformation preserves the behavior of the original program by means of the refactoring technique.