REdiffs: Refactoring-Aware Difference Viewer for Java

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Abstract

Comparing and understanding differences between old and new versions of source code are necessary in various software development situations. However, if changes are tangled with refactorings in a single revision, then the resulting source code differences are more complicated. We propose an interactive difference viewer which enables us to separate refactoring effects from source code differences for improving the understandability of the differences.

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This work builds on

• International Conference Understanding Source Code Differences by Separating Refactoring Effects APSEC 2011

BibTeX

@inproceedings{hayashi-wcre2013,
    author = {Shinpei Hayashi and Sirinut Thangthumachit and Motoshi Saeki},
    title = {REdiffs: Refactoring-Aware Difference Viewer for Java},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering},
    pages = {487--488},
    doi = {10.1109/WCRE.2013.6671331},
    year = 2013,
}