Refactoring object-oriented software, as any other evolutionary task, usually affects source code and object models, burdening developers to keep those artifacts correct and up to date. Due to the gap between modeling and programming artifacts, refactoring efforts soon become duplicate and considerably expensive. In this context, currently used tool support, in special Round-Trip Engineering (RTE) tools, fails to fully automate evolution tasks. Consequently, most projects discard object models early in the life cycle, adhering to code-driven approaches. This work proposes a formal approach to consistently refactor object models and object-oriented programs of a system in a model-driven manner. Model refactoring is backed by formal laws of modeling, which are guaranteed to be semantics preserving. Each refactoring, a composition of laws, applicable to an object model, is associated with a semi-automatic sequence of applications of laws of programming, called strategy. Strategies are applied by relying on a specific conformance relationship between object models and programs, which must fulfill a specific degree of confinement.
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Publisher
Lap Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN-13
9783848409846
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114033404
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Author
Tiago Massoni
Publication Name
A Model-Driven Approach to Refactoring
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
232 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
345g
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Title_Author
Tiago Massoni
Country/Region of Manufacture
Germany
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