Refactoring Reading Group

KrisDeVolder, AlexBradley, RickChern, LloydMarkle

Template for evaluating papers

• Email these to discussion leader beforehand:
  • Summary of paper
  • Positive and negative points about the paper
  • Try to construct arguments both for why you would strongly support the paper (A rating) and why you would strongly oppose it (D rating)

Future readings to discuss

• July 2?
  • Tourwé, T., Brichau, J., Gybels, K. On the Existence of the AOSD-Evolution Paradox. AOSD 2003 Workshop on Software-engineering Properties of Languages for Aspect Technologies, Boston, USA, 2003.
• June 24 (Lloyd leading)
  • Wloka, J., Hirschfeld, R., and Hänsel, J. Tool-supported refactoring of aspect-oriented programs. AOSD 2008.
  • Laddad, R. Aspect-Oriented Refactoring, part 1 and part 2. The Server Side (www.theserverside.com), 2003.

Previously discussed readings

• June 18 (Alex leading)
  • Monteiro and Fernandes. Object-to-Aspect Refactorings for Feature Extraction. AOSD 2004.
  • A. van Deursen, M. Marin, L. Moonen. Aspect mining and refactoring. REFACE workshop, 2003.
• June 10 (Rick leading)
  • Monteiro and Fernandes. Towards a catalog of aspect-oriented refactorings. AOSD 2005.
  • Dave Thomas. Refactoring as Meta Programming? Journal of Object Technology, vol. 4, no. 1, January-February 2005, pp. 7-11.
• June 4
  • Tourwe and Mens. Identifying Refactoring Opportunities Using Logic Meta Programming. CSMR 2003.
  • Tokuda and Batory. Evolving Object-Oriented Designs with Refactorings. ASE 2001.
• May 27
  • Mens, T., Tourwe, T. A survey of software refactoring. TSE 2004.

Other interesting readings

• Similar work by authors of previously discussed papers:
  • Jan Wloka. Tool-supported Refactoring of Aspect-oriented Programs. Ph.D. thesis, TU Berlin, 2007.
  • Book: Laddad, R. Aspect Oriented Refactoring. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006.
  • Monteiro, M. P. Catalogue of Refactorings for AspectJ. Technical Report UM-DI-GECSD-200402, Universidade do Minho, December 2004.
  • Tom Mens, Serge Demeyer, Bart Du Bois, Hans Stenten and Pieter Van Gorp. Refactoring: Current Research and Future Trends. 2003.
• Liu, J., Batory, D., and Lengauer, C. Feature oriented refactoring of legacy applications. ICSE 2006.
• Mathieu Verbaere, Ran Ettinger and Oege de Moor. JunGL: a Scripting Language for Refactoring. ICSE 2006.
• Len Feremans. Aspect-Oriented Refactoring. Thesis (licentiaat in de Toegepaste Informatica), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2005.
• Binkley, D., Ceccato, M., Harman, M., Ricca, F., and Tonella, P. Automated Refactoring of Object Oriented Code into Aspects. ICSM 2005.
• David Shepherd and Lori Pollock. Ophir: A Framework for Automatic Mining and Refactoring of Aspects. Technical Report No. 2004-03, Dept of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Delaware.
• Tonella, P., Ceccato, M. Migrating Interface Implementation to Aspects. ICSM'04, Chicago, USA, September 2004.
• [May have something about transactional refactorings:] Paolo Bottoni, Francesco Parisi Presicce, and Gabriele Taentzer. Specifying Integrated Refactoring with Distributed Graph Transformations. AGTIVE 2003, LNCS 3062, pp. 220–235, 2004.
• Hanenberg, S., Oberschulte, C., Unland, R. Refactoring of Aspect-Oriented Software. Net.ObjectDays 2003.
• Iwamoto, M., Zhao, J. Refactoring Aspect-Oriented Programs. 4th AOSD Modeling With UML Workshop, UML'2003.
• Jan Hannemann, Thomas Fritz and Gail C. Murphy. Refactoring to Aspects – an Interactive Approach. Proceedings of the 2003 OOPSLA workshop on Eclipse technology eXchange.
• Borba and Soares. Refactoring and code generation tools for AspectJ. OOPSLA 2002.
• Tom Mens, Serge Demeyer, and Dirk Janssens. Formalising Behaviour Preserving Program Transformations. ICGT 2002, LNCS 2505, pp. 286–301, 2002.
• Filman, R. E. and Friedman, D. P. Aspect-Oriented Programming is Quantification and Obliviousness. OOPSLA 2000.
  • There's another version of this paper in Filman, Elrad, Clarke and Aksit, Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004, on SPL shelves.
• D. L. Parnas. On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules. Commun. ACM 15, 12 (Dec. 1972), 1053-1058.