Designing Refactoring Tool for Object-Oriented Code Based on Metrics
https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2025-37(5)-11
Abstract
Currently, the information technologies industry is a leader in growth rate among the main economic sectors. However, the most important components of the development process, such as estimation and refactoring of program products, still remain without generic tools. Therefore, our main goal is to design a mean of unified modification and formal evaluation for code in object-oriented programming languages. We use refactoring patterns to define code modifications, and code metrics calculation to assess its characteristics. Our tool should help developers to make decisions connected with code quality and its modification necessity, automatize that change. Actually, it may be used in organizations and educational institutions. We have developed a domain specific language to unify the specification of object-oriented languages. Furthermore, a research prototype of the tool has been created. 3 object-oriented languages descriptions and 6 diverse refactoring patterns have been developed to demonstrate capabilities of the approach.
About the Authors
Artem Olegovich KORZNIKOV
Perm State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
BSc (Applied Mathematics and Computer Science), Master’s student of the Department of Physics and Mathematics of PSU. Research interests: code metrics, object-oriented programming languages, domain specific languages, code refactoring.
Natalya Nikolaevna DATSUN
HSE University, Perm,
PSHPU, Perm
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Phys.-Math,), visiting lecturer of Department of Information Technology in Business of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Perm; Associate Professor, Department of Applied Informatics, Information Systems and Technologies, Perm State Humanitarian Pedagogical University. Her research interests include code metrics, object-oriented analysis, and design.
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KORZNIKOV A.O., DATSUN N.N. Designing Refactoring Tool for Object-Oriented Code Based on Metrics. Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of the RAS (Proceedings of ISP RAS). 2025;37(5):143-156. https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2025-37(5)-11
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