Automatic refactoring of erlang programs

Sagonas, K; Avgerinos, T

dc.contributor.author	Sagonas, K	en
dc.contributor.author	Avgerinos, T	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:45:58Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:45:58Z
dc.date.issued	2009	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/32495
dc.subject	Code cleanup	en
dc.subject	Code simplification	en
dc.subject	Erlang	en
dc.subject	Program transformation	en
dc.subject	Refactoring	en
dc.subject.other	Automatic codes	en
dc.subject.other	Automatic refactoring	en
dc.subject.other	Clean up	en
dc.subject.other	Cleanup methodology	en
dc.subject.other	Code transformation	en
dc.subject.other	Current status	en
dc.subject.other	Design goal	en
dc.subject.other	Erlang programs	en
dc.subject.other	Haskell	en
dc.subject.other	Non-functional	en
dc.subject.other	Open sources	en
dc.subject.other	Refactoring tools	en
dc.subject.other	Refactorings	en
dc.subject.other	Software tool	en
dc.subject.other	Source codes	en
dc.subject.other	Cosine transforms	en
dc.subject.other	Computer programming	en
dc.title	Automatic refactoring of erlang programs	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1145/1599410.1599414	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1599410.1599414	en
heal.publicationDate	2009	en
heal.abstract	This paper describes the design goals and current status of tidier, a software tool that tidies Erlang source code, making it cleaner, simpler, and often also more efficient. In contrast to other refactoring tools, tidier is completely automatic and is not tied to any particular editor or IDE. Instead, tidier comes with a suite of code transformations that can be selected by its user via command-line options and applied in bulk on a set of modules or entire applications using a simple command. Alternatively, users can use tidier's GUI to inspect one by one the transformations that will be performed on their code and manually select only those that they fancy. We have used tidier to clean up various applications of Erlang/OTP and have tested it on many open source Erlang code bases of significant size. We briefly report our experiences and show opportunities for tidier's current set of transformations on existing Erlang code out there. As a by-product, our paper also documents what we believe are good coding practices in Erlang. Last but not least, our paper describes in detail the automatic code cleanup methodology we advocate and a set of refactorings which are general enough to be applied, as is or with only small modifications, to the source code of programs written in Haskell or Clean and possibly even in non-functional languages. Copyright © 2009 ACM.	en
heal.journalName	PPDP'09 - Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1145/1599410.1599414	en
dc.identifier.spage	13	en
dc.identifier.epage	23	en