Tools for a successful refactoring

Authors:
Emerson Murphy-Hill;Andrew P. Black
Affiliations:
Portland State University, Portland, OR;Portland State University, Portland, OR
Venue:
Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Although refactoring tools have been integrated into numerous development environments over the past ten years, we have seen little variation in the human interfaces to refactoring tools -- when a refactoring fails, most tools present a textual error message. Existing interfaces can cause programmers to refactor slowly, conservatively, and in an error-prone manner. In this demonstration, we will show how our tools can help programmers overcome barriers to a successful refactoring.