WRT 2013 - Workshop on Refactoring Tools

Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, USA
Max Schaefer, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Refactoring is the process of improving a program's internal structure without changing its external behavior by applying behavior-preserving transformations, themselves known as refactorings. While refactoring is widely accepted as an indispensable part of the modern software developer's toolbox, manual refactoring is known to be tedious and error-prone: it is often hard to tell whether a transformation will actually preserve program behavior, and refactorings often require many changes throughout the program. Consequently, tool support for refactoring has attracted a lot of interest both in industry and in academia, and most modern IDEs ship with built-in support for refactoring.
WRT will bring together researchers and developers of refactoring tools to share new ideas and practical insights, discuss challenges and solutions, and together shape the future of refactoring. Topics of interest include, but are by no means limited to, refactoring tools for new domains, novel interface paradigms, and refactoring for previously unsupported languages.
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