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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Using Clients to Support Extract Class Refactoring

Author : Musaad Alzahrani

Published in: Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Extract Class refactoring refers to the process of separating the different responsibilities of a class into different classes. Existing approaches of the Extract Class refactoring are based on factors internal to the class, i.e., structural and semantic relationships between methods. However, using the internal factors to identify and separate the responsibilities of the class is inadequate in many cases. Therefore, this chapter proposes a novel approach that exploits the clients of the class to support the Extract Class refactoring. The proposed approach is useful and complementary to the existing approaches because it involves factors external to the class to be refactored, i.e., the clients.

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Metadata
Title
Using Clients to Support Extract Class Refactoring
Author
Musaad Alzahrani
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-70872-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-70873-3

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70873-3_48