Refactoring Reading Group

KrisDeVolder, AlexBradley, RickChern, LloydMarkle

Template for evaluating papers

• 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)

Previously discussed readings

• May 27
  • Mens, T., Tourwe, T. A survey of software refactoring. TSE 2004.
• June 4
  • Tourwe and Mens. Identifying Refactoring Opportunities Using Logic Meta Programming. (2003)
  • Tokuda and Batory. Evolving Object-Oriented Designs with Refactorings. ASE 2001.

Future readings to discuss

• June 10
  • 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.

Other interesting readings

• Borba and Soares. Refactoring and code generation tools for AspectJ. OOPSLA 2002.
• [Manually extracting features & making them pluggable] Monteiro and Fernandes. Object-to-Aspect Refactorings for Feature Extraction. AOSD 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.
• D. L. Parnas. On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules. (1972)
• [Related to "survey" above:] Tom Mens, Serge Demeyer, Bart Du Bois, Hans Stenten and Pieter Van Gorp. Refactoring: Current Research and Future Trends. (2003)