System and method for automatically identifying compound refactorings of program code through quantitative metric analysis
US7451439B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 3, 2004 |
| Grant date | Nov 11, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 9, 2026 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F8/72
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method for automatically identifying compound refactorings of program code through quantitative metric analysis is presented. Program code is maintained, including program statements written in accordance with a programming language and defining operations executed following transformation into machine code. Compound refactorings are built. The program code is refactored by evaluating one or more of the program statements against a compound refactoring including a set of one or more individual refactorings. The application of the refactorings to the program statements is validated for each evaluated refactoring. A quantitative measure is analyzed against a threshold to reflect a relative difference between the program statements prior to and after application of the refactorings.
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