Padrão de nomenclatura para refatoração: um estudo de caso para a Refactoring and Measurement Tool (RMT)

Abstract

Managing the changes made to a system improves the efficiency of the process and reduces the risk of new problems arising as a result of changes. Working with change management is one of the research topics developed by the Software Engineering and Computational Intelligence Group at the Federal Technological University of Paraná, as software products are created by the group. One of the products is the software refactoring tool capable of identifying and applying design patterns in source code, generating a file with the refactored code as output. The tool changes the source code without using a naming pattern. This makes it difficult to identify which parts of the source code were changed by the tool. For this reason, this work created a nomenclature pattern that can be used by the tool to improve the readability and maintainability of the artifacts generated after refactoring. The pattern contains guidelines for naming the artifacts produced, such as class, methods, among others. This pattern makes it possible to identify what was created or modified during the refactoring process to make the developer's understanding of the changes generated by the tool more intuitive and increase the quality of the artifacts' versioning. The pattern created, with some adaptations, can also be used by other tools aimed at software refactoring.