Abordagem para extensão da ferramenta Refactoring and Measurement Tool de detecção de pontos de inserção e aplicação de padrões de projeto em código-fonte

Abstract

Software refactoring is the process of modifying a source code without altering its external behavior, aiming to optimize its internal structure. Refactoring can be performed by several methods, including those based on design standards that allow the source code to be analyzed to detect and insert patterns that help improve its flexibility, maintainability, among other quality requirements. The process of applying design patterns can be performed automatically, by the Refactoring and Measurement Tool that looks for insertion points and applies the design patterns according to the methods in the literature. The difference of this process is that it contemplates a single environment method for insertion and detection of design patterns. The tool has two methods implemented and can be extended to include others to make it more complete. This work proposes the creation of an extension approach to the Refactoring and Measurement Tool so that new methods of detection and insertion of design patterns can be incorporated into it. The proposed approach was used to insert the mini patterns method and the tests using this new insertion used fifty open-source projects. The proposed approach contains a set of steps to facilitate the process of inserting new methods into the Refactoring and Measurement Tool.