Re: Refactoring wishlist

Just implement all the Java refactorings for C/C++.... (You didn't specify which language you were going to implement the refactorings for.) Extra credit for Objective-C.)

C. Keith Ray
 
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On Sep 19, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Danny Dig <[email protected]> wrote:

> Refactoring tools have made a big splash. They are now in the
> top-level menu (along File, Edit) in most respectable IDEs. On one
> hand, this is good news. On the other, we could have done more.
> 
> At every single refactoring workshop that I held in the past, somebody
> inevitably asks the question: "Martin Fowler's catalog lists 90+
> refactorings. More than 10 years after its publication, major IDEs
> like Eclipse only automate about two dozen of those refactorings. When
> are we going to automate the remaining refactorings?".
> 
> I would like to automate many more refactorings. This semester I have
> the man-power to do this. I am teaching the Software Engineering
> course at UIUC with 160 students. For the class project, each group of
> 4 students will implement a new refactoring in the Eclipse IDE.
> 
> Two kinds of refactorings are worth automating. First, refactorings
> that you perform very infrequently, but are very tricky to get right.
> Second, refactorings that you perform very frequently; you are not
> frustrated because they are complicated, but because you have to do
> them so often by hand.
> 
> For the class project we would target refactorings from the latter
> category (simple, but frequent). What are some refactorings that you
> wish we would automate?
> 
> best,
> Danny
> 
> -- 
> Danny Dig's homepage: http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/dig/www
> 
> Motto: "Success is not for the chosen few but for the few who choose"
> 


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