Refactoring-aware software merging and configuration management

Authors:
Danny Dig;Kashif Manzoor;Tien N. Nguyen;Ralph Johnson
Affiliations:
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Venue:
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Refactoring tools allow programmers to change their source code quicker than before. However, the complexity of these changes cause versioning tools that operate at a file level to lose the history of entities and be unable to merge refactored entities. This problem can be solved by semantic, operation-based SCM with persistent IDs. MolhadoRef, our proto-type, can successfully merge edit and refactoring operations which were performed on different development branches, preserves program history better and makes it easier to understand program evolution.