Institutional Repository
| 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 | |
| Conference Name | 2014 International Conference on Software and Systems Process, ICSSP 2014 |
| Pages | 55-64 |
| Conference Date | May 26, 2014 - May 28, 2014 |
| Conference Place | Nanjing, China |
| Indexed Type | EI |
| Publish Place | Association for Computing Machinery |
| ISBN | 9781450327541 |
| Department | (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 |
| English Abstract | 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. |
| Language | 英语 |
| Content Type | 会议论文 |
| URI | http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/16590 |
| Collection | 中国科学院软件研究所 |
| Recommended Citation 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. |
| Files in This Item: | There are no files associated with this item. | |||||
Items in the repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
Edit Comment