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Let's Make Refactoring Tools User-extensible!
Huiqing Li and Simon Thompson
In Peter Sommerlad, editor, The Fifth ACM Workshop on Refactoring Tools, pages 32-39, June 2012 [doi].Abstract
We present a framework for making a refactoring tool extensible, allowing users to define refactorings from scratch using the concrete syntax of the language, as well as to describe complex refactorings in a domain-specific language for scripting. We demonstrate the approach in practice through a series of examples.
The extension framework is built into Wrangler, a tool for refactoring Erlang programs, but we argue that the approach is equally applicable to tools for other languages.
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@inproceedings{3218,
author = {Huiqing Li and Simon Thompson},
title = {Let's {M}ake {R}efactoring {T}ools {U}ser-extensible!},
month = {June},
year = {2012},
pages = {32-39},
keywords = {Refactoring, API, DSL, Wrangler},
note = {},
doi = {10.1145/2328876.2328881},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2012/3218},
publication_type = {inproceedings},
submission_id = {26927_1339054469},
ISBN = {978-1-4503-1500-5},
booktitle = {The Fifth ACM Workshop on Refactoring Tools},
editor = {Peter Sommerlad},
refereed = {yes},
externalurl = {Available from ACM Digital Library},
}