Frame-Based Behavior Preservation in Refactoring

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Abstract

Behavior preservation often bothers programmers in refactoring. This poster paper proposes a new approach that tames the behavior preservation by introducing the concept of a frame. A frame in refactoring defines stakeholder's individual concerns about the refactored code. Frame-based refactoring preserves the observable behavior within a particular frame. Therefore, it helps programmers distinguish the behavioral changes that they should observe from those that they can ignore.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{maruyama-saner2017,
    author = {Katsuhisa Maruyama and Shinpei Hayashi and Norihiro Yoshida and Eunjong Choi},
    title = {Frame-Based Behavior Preservation in Refactoring},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering},
    pages = {573--574},
    doi = {10.1109/SANER.2017.7884683},
    year = 2017,
}