Multi-language refactoring with dimensions of semantics-preservation
Hagen Schink
Abstract
Today, software developers utilize different general-purpose (GPL) and domain-specific languages (DSL) to implement multi-language software applications (MLSA). MLSAs, thus, contain artifacts of different GPLs and DSLs, e.g., sourcecode files and configurations. In a recent study we found that refactoring an artifact can break artifact interaction and that interaction cannot be re-established by additional refactorings. In this paper we propose an approach that supports developers in understanding and adapting changes to artifact interaction due to refactoring.
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