Automated Behavioral Testing of Refactoring Engines

Refactoring is a transformation that preserves the external behavior of a program and improves its internal quality. Usually, compilation errors and behavioral changes are avoided by preconditions determined for each refactoring transformation. However, to formally define these preconditions and tra...

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Published in:	IEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 147 - 162
Main Authors:	Soares, G., Gheyi, R., Massoni, T.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York IEEE 01.02.2013 IEEE Computer Society
Subjects:	automated testing Automatic programming Automation Code reuse Computer bugs Computer programming Debugging Engines Java Metals program generation Refactoring Software engineering Software quality Studies Testing Unified modeling language
ISSN:	0098-5589, 1939-3520
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