CS 6704: Software Refactoring
Spring 2016
Eli Tilevich

Software refactoring--—a semantics preserving program transformation—--has
been firmly embraced by the real-world software development
community. Indeed, automated refactoring support has become
part and parcel of every major integrated development environment
(IDE). Nevertheless, refactoring remains one of the most active research
areas in software engineering research, with new, exciting results
appearing regularly in major research publications. Refactoring has
been successfully applied not only to program source code, but also to
metadata, user interfaces, and binary representations. In this seminar
class, we will read and discuss classic software refactoring papers as
well as recent research results in the area. For their term projects,
students will be expected to develop and evaluate refactoring approaches,
techniques, and tools pertaining to their own research.