Using refactorings to automatically update component-based applications
OOPSLA '05 Companion to the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Using refactorings to automatically update component-based applications
OOPSLA '05 Companion to the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
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Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice - IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM2005)
Refactoring-aware version control
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Are refactorings less error-prone than other changes?
Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Automated upgrading of component-based applications
Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Refactoring-based support for binary compatibility in evolving frameworks
GPCE '07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
Generative programming techniques for Java library migration
GPCE '07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
Encapsulating and exploiting change with changeboxes
ICDL '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Dynamic languages: in conjunction with the 15th International Smalltalk Joint Conference 2007
ComeBack!: a refactoring-based tool for binary-compatible framework upgrade
Companion of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Correctness of data mined from CVS
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Practical refactoring-based framework upgrade
GPCE '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Generative programming and component engineering
Gathering refactoring data: a comparison of four methods
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Refactoring Tools
Controlled adaptation-oriented evolution of object-oriented components
SE '08 Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering
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Proceedings of the first ACM asia-pacific workshop on Workshop on systems
A graph-based approach to API usage adaptation
Proceedings of the ACM international conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications
Architecture optimisation with currawong
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An empirical investigation into the role of API-level refactorings during software evolution
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Automated GUI refactoring and test script repair
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on End-to-End Test Script Engineering
Mining evolution of object usage
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Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Free composition @ onward! 2011
Automated detection of refactorings in evolving components
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A field study of refactoring challenges and benefits
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Frameworks and libraries change their APIs. Migrating an application to the new API is tedious and disrupts the development process. Although some tools and ideas have been proposed to solve the evolution of APIs, most updates are done manually. To better understand the requirements for migration tools we studied the API changes of three frameworks and one library. We discovered that the changes that break existing applications are not random, but they tend to fall into particular categories. Over 80% of these changes are refactorings. This suggests that refactoring-based migration tools should be used to update applications.