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Improving usability of refactoring tools

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Emerson Murphy-HillAuthors Info & Claims

OOPSLA '06: Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

Pages 746 - 747

https://doi.org/10.1145/1176617.1176705

Published: 22 October 2006 Publication History

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While the integration of refactoring tools into many development environments has increased, the usability of these tools has remained stagnant. Specifically, when refactorings fail, tools communicate the failure to the programmer poorly, causing the programmer to restructure slowly, conservatively, and without preserving behavior. In the accompanying poster, I show how refactoring correctness, speed, and user satisfaction can be measurably increased by improving the usability of refactoring tools. In the long run, better usability will aid in the adoption and utilization of refactoring tools.

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OOPSLA '06: Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

October 2006

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ISBN:159593491X

DOI:10.1145/1176617

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Peri Tarr
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University of Texas at Austin, USA

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