Refactoring planning and practice in agile software development: An empirical study

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	Refactoring planning and practice in agile software development: An empirical study
	Chen, Jie (1); Xiao, Junchao (1); Wang, Qing (1); Osterweil, Leon J. (4); Li, Mingshu (1)
	2014
会议名称	2014 International Conference on Software and Systems Process, ICSSP 2014
页码	55-64
会议日期	May 26, 2014 - May 28, 2014
会议地点	Nanjing, China
收录类别	EI
出版地	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN	9781450327541
部门归属	(1) Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; (2) University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; (3) State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; (4) Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
摘要	Agile software engineering increasingly seeks to incorporate design modification and continuous refactoring in order to maintain code quality even in highly dynamic environments. However, there does not currently appear to be an industry-wide consensus on how to do this and research in this area expresses conflicting opinions. This paper presents an empirical study based upon an industry survey aimed at understanding the different ways that refactoring is thought of by the different people carrying out different roles in agile processes and how these different people weigh the importance of refactoring versus other kinds of tasks in the process. The study found good support for the importance of refactoring, but most respondents agreed that deferred refactoring impacts the agility of their process. Thus there was no universally agreed-upon strategy for planning refactoring. The survey findings also indicated that different roles have different perspectives on the different kinds of tasks in an agile process although all seem to want to increase the priority given to refactoring during planning for the iterations in agile development. Analysis of the survey raised many interesting questions suggesting the need for a considerable amount of future research. © 2014 ACM.; Agile software engineering increasingly seeks to incorporate design modification and continuous refactoring in order to maintain code quality even in highly dynamic environments. However, there does not currently appear to be an industry-wide consensus on how to do this and research in this area expresses conflicting opinions. This paper presents an empirical study based upon an industry survey aimed at understanding the different ways that refactoring is thought of by the different people carrying out different roles in agile processes and how these different people weigh the importance of refactoring versus other kinds of tasks in the process. The study found good support for the importance of refactoring, but most respondents agreed that deferred refactoring impacts the agility of their process. Thus there was no universally agreed-upon strategy for planning refactoring. The survey findings also indicated that different roles have different perspectives on the different kinds of tasks in an agile process although all seem to want to increase the priority given to refactoring during planning for the iterations in agile development. Analysis of the survey raised many interesting questions suggesting the need for a considerable amount of future research. © 2014 ACM.
语种	英语
内容类型	会议论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/16590
专题	中国科学院软件研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Jie ,Xiao, Junchao ,Wang, Qing ,et al. Refactoring planning and practice in agile software development: An empirical study[C]. Association for Computing Machinery,2014:55-64.