Perspectives on refactoring planning and practice: an empirical study

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	Perspectives on refactoring planning and practice: an empirical study
	Chen, J; Xiao, JC; Wang, Q; Osterweil, LJ; Li, MS
	2016
发表期刊	EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
ISSN	1382-3256
卷号	21 期号:3 页码:1397-1436
摘要	Iterative development increasingly seeks to incorporate design modification and continuous refactoring in order to maintain code quality even in highly dynamic environments. However, there does not appear to be consensus on how to do this, especially because research results seem to be inconsistent. This paper presents an empirical study based upon an industry survey of refactoring practices and attitudes. The study explored differences in attitudes about refactoring among participants who played roles in software development, and how these different attitudes affected actual practice. The study found strong agreement among all roles about the importance of refactoring, and agreement about the negative effects upon agility of deferring refactoring. Nevertheless, the survey found that roles had different perspectives on the different kinds of tasks in an agile process. Accordingly, there was no universally agreed-upon strategy for how to plan to carry out refactoring. Analysis of the survey results has raised many interesting questions suggesting the need for a considerable amount of future research.; Iterative development increasingly seeks to incorporate design modification and continuous refactoring in order to maintain code quality even in highly dynamic environments. However, there does not appear to be consensus on how to do this, especially because research results seem to be inconsistent. This paper presents an empirical study based upon an industry survey of refactoring practices and attitudes. The study explored differences in attitudes about refactoring among participants who played roles in software development, and how these different attitudes affected actual practice. The study found strong agreement among all roles about the importance of refactoring, and agreement about the negative effects upon agility of deferring refactoring. Nevertheless, the survey found that roles had different perspectives on the different kinds of tasks in an agile process. Accordingly, there was no universally agreed-upon strategy for how to plan to carry out refactoring. Analysis of the survey results has raised many interesting questions suggesting the need for a considerable amount of future research.
收录类别	SCI
关键词	Refactoring Project Management Software Process Iterative Development Survey
部门归属	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Software, Lab Internet Software Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China. Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China. Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Software, State Key Lab Comp Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China. Univ Massachusetts, Dept Comp Sci, Amherst, MA 01003 USA.
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000379061700020
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内容类型	期刊论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/17328
专题	中国科学院软件研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, J,Xiao, JC,Wang, Q,et al. Perspectives on refactoring planning and practice: an empirical study[J]. EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING,2016,21(3):1397-1436.
APA	Chen, J,Xiao, JC,Wang, Q,Osterweil, LJ,&Li, MS.(2016).Perspectives on refactoring planning and practice: an empirical study.EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING,21(3),1397-1436.
MLA	Chen, J,et al."Perspectives on refactoring planning and practice: an empirical study".EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 21.3(2016):1397-1436.

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