Refactoring is a way of improving software artifacts after they have been produced to fulfill users? needs. It is a semi-formalized approach that makes software easier to read and modify. In this paper a notation for refactorings, systematic search and replace is described. It is shown, that grammar-based notation used in JART (Just Another Refactoring Tool) is much more flexible and readable than the existing ones.
Citation:
Tomaž Kosar, Marjan Mernik, Viljem Žumer, "JART: Grammar-Based Approach to Refactoring," compsac, vol. 1, pp.502-507, 28th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'04), 2004