Review of Automated Code Refactoring of C# Programs

• Autorzy: Derezinska Anna , Sygocki Dawid

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.15439/2023F7277

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Code refactoring is supported by many Integrated Development Environments. This paper is focused on the automated code refactoring of C# programs. We have analyzed more than sixty refactorings available in three popular IDEs. We cataloged different restrictions, defects, and other quality concerns associated with the implementation of the refactorings, taking into account both modification of the production code and of the corresponding test cases. An extension to automate selected refactoring improvements has been developed for the ReSharper platform and experimentally verified.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

code refactoring; unit testing; code quality; code maintenance; test maintenance; C#

PL

refaktoryzacja kodu; jakość kodów; test; C#

• Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Informatyczne
• Czasopismo: Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: Vol. 35
• Strony: 937--941
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 16 poz., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Derezinska Anna

• Warsaw University of Technology Institute of Computer Science Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8792-203X

autor

Sygocki Dawid

• Warsaw University of Technology Institute of Computer Science Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland

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