SDE 5 Proceedings of the fifth ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Software development environments
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Semi-automatic update of applications in response to library changes
ICSM '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Maintenance
ECCOP '98 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
CatchUp!: capturing and replaying refactorings to support API evolution
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
The Role of Refactorings in API Evolution
ICSM '05 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Refactoring support for class library migration
OOPSLA '05 Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
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)
Automated detection of refactorings in evolving components
ECOOP'06 Proceedings of the 20th European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
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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. Our study of the API changes in five components revealed that over 80% of the changes that break existing applications are caused by refactorings. This suggests that refactoring-based migration tools should be used to effectively upgrade applications. We propose an approach that is both automated and safe, without any overhead on the component producers. First, component refactorings are automatically detected (either inferred or recorded), then they are incorporated into applications by replaying.