[ACM Press the Fifth Workshop - Rapperswil, Switzerland (2012.06.01-2012.06.01)] Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Refactoring Tools - WRT '12 - Let's make refactoring tools user-extensible!
β Scribed by Li, Huiqing; Thompson, Simon
- Book ID
- 126911397
- Publisher
- ACM Press
- Year
- 2012
- Weight
- 506 KB
- Category
- Article
- ISBN
- 1450315003
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β¦ Synopsis
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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