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Facilitating software refactoring with appropriate resolution order of bad smells

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Hui Liu,

Limei Yang,

Zhendong Niu,

Zhyi Ma,

Weizhong ShaoAuthors Info & Claims

ESEC/FSE '09: Proceedings of the 7th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering

Pages 265 - 268

https://doi.org/10.1145/1595696.1595738

Published: 24 August 2009 Publication History

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Bad smell is a key concept in software refactoring. We have a bunch of bad smells, refactoring rules, and refactoring tools, but we do not know which kind of bad smells should be resolved first. The resolution of one kind of bad smells may have impact on the resolution of other bad smells. Consequently, different resolution orders of the same set of bad smells may require different effort, and/or lead to different quality improvement. In order to ease the work and maximize the effect of refactoring, we try to analyze the relationships among different kinds of bad smells, and their impact on resolution orders of these bad smells. With the analysis, we recommend a resolution order of common bad smells. The main contribution of this paper is to motivate the necessity to arrange resolution orders of bad smells, and recommend a resolution order of common bad smells.

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Facilitating software refactoring with appropriate resolution order of bad smells
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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ESEC/FSE '09: Proceedings of the 7th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering

August 2009

408 pages

ISBN:9781605580012

DOI:10.1145/1595696

General Chair:
Hans van Vliet
VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Valerie Issarny
INRIA-Paris-Rocquencourt, France

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