Refactoring with ordered collections of fine-grain transformations
dc.contributor.author | Saadeh, Emmad I.M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kourie, Derrick G. | |
dc.contributor.email | dkourie@cs.up.ac.za | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-08T08:41:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-05-08T08:41:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.description.abstract | The objective of this paper is to explain the notion of fine-grain transformations (FGTs), showing how they can be used as prototypical building blocks for constructing refactorings of a design-level system description. FGT semantics are specified in terms of pre- and postconditions which, in turn, also determines the sequential dependency relationships between them. An algorithm is provided which uses sequential dependency relationships to convert an FGT-list to a set of so-called FGT-DAGs. It is shown how to compute the precondition of such ordered collections of FGTs. The paper introduces a new approach to deal with refactoring pre- and postconditions by defining them at two different levels. To give these concepts syntactical form, we rely on the Prolog formats used by an FGT-based refactoring prototype tool. An example is provided to illustrate the various concepts and to demonstrate that, because of their simplicity, well-defined pre-post semantics and their intuitive nature, FGTs provide a pragmatic basis for building refactorings. | en_US |
dc.description.librarian | hb2014 | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijseke | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Saadeh, EIM & Kourie, DG 2013, 'Refactoring with ordered collections of fine-grain transformations', International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 309-339. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0218-1940 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1793-6403 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1142/S0218194013500095 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/39743 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | World Scientific | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2014 World Scientific Publishing Co. All rights reserved. A electronic version of Refactoring with ordered collections of fine-grain transformations was published in International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, vol.23, no. 3, pp. 309-339, 2013. doi : 10.1142/S0218194013500095. The original publication is available at : http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/ijseke | en_US |
dc.subject | FGT-based refactoring | en_US |
dc.subject | FGT-enabling precondition | en_US |
dc.subject | Refactoring | en_US |
dc.subject | Refactoring-level precondition. | en_US |
dc.subject | Fine-grain transformations (FGTs) | en_US |
dc.title | Refactoring with ordered collections of fine-grain transformations | en_US |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en_US |