Conference proceeding
Interactive and Guided Architectural Refactoring with Search-Based Recommendation
FSE'16: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 24TH ACM SIGSOFT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, v 13-18-, pp 535-546
01 Jan 2016
Abstract
Architectural refactorings can contain hundreds of steps and experienced developers could carry them out over several weeks. Moreover, developers need to explore a correct sequence of refactorings steps among many more incorrect alternatives. Thus, carrying out architectural refactorings is costly, risky, and challenging. In this paper, we present Refactoring Navigator: a tool-supported and interactive recommendation approach for aiding architectural refactoring. Our approach takes a given implementation as the starting point, a desired high-level design as the target, and iteratively recommends a series of refactoring steps. Moreover, our approach allows the user to accept, reject, or ignore a recommended refactoring step, and uses the user's feedback in further refactoring recommendations. We evaluated the effectiveness of our approach and tool using a controlled experiment and an industrial case study. The controlled experiment shows that the participants who used Refactoring Navigator accomplished their tasks in 77.4% less time and manually edited 98.3% fewer lines than the control group. The industrial case study suggests that Refactoring Navigator has the potential to help with architectural refactorings in practice.
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- Title
- Interactive and Guided Architectural Refactoring with Search-Based Recommendation
- Creators
- Yun Lin - Fudan UniversityXin Peng - Fudan UniversityYuanfang Cai - Drexel UniversityDanny Dig - Oregon State UniversityDiwen Zheng - Fudan UniversityWenyun Zhao - Fudan University
- Contributors
- T Zimmermann (Editor)J ClelandHuang (Editor)Z Su (Editor)
- Publication Details
- FSE'16: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 24TH ACM SIGSOFT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, v 13-18-, pp 535-546
- Conference
- FSE'16: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2016 24TH ACM SIGSOFT INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
- Publisher
- Assoc Computing Machinery
- Number of pages
- 12
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000391133400050
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84997124483
- Other Identifier
- 991019167586204721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Computer Science, Software Engineering