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ICSE 2022
Sun 8 - Fri 27 May 2022
Thu 12 May 2022 12:05 - 12:10 at ICSE room 4-even hours - Refactoring 2 Chair(s): Julian Dolby
Thu 12 May 2022 20:05 - 20:10 at ICSE room 3-even hours - Refactoring 1 Chair(s): Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
Fri 27 May 2022 11:20 - 11:25 at Room 306+307 - Papers 21: Programming Languages and Refactoring Chair(s): Julian Dolby

Software refactoring plays an important role in software engineering. Developers often turn to refactoring when they want to restructure software to improve its quality without changing its external behavior. Studies show that small-scale (floss) refactoring is common in industry and can often be performed by a single developer in short sessions, even though developers do much of this work manually instead of using refactoring tools. However, some refactoring efforts are much larger in scale, requiring entire teams and months of effort, and the role of tools in these efforts is not as well studied. In this paper, we report on a survey we conducted with developers to understand large-scale refactoring, its prevalence, and how tools support it. Our results from 107 industry developers demonstrate that projects commonly go through multiple large-scale refactorings, each of which requires considerable effort. While there is often a desire to refactor, other business concerns such as developing new features often take higher priority. Our study finds that developers use several categories of tools to support large-scale refactoring and rely more heavily on general-purpose tools like IDEs than on tools designed specifically to support refactoring. Tool support varies across the different activities, with some particularly challenging activities seeing little use of tools in practice. Our study demonstrates a clear need for better large-scale refactoring tools and an opportunity for refactoring researchers to make a difference in industry. The results we summarize in this paper is one concrete step towards this goal.

Thu 12 May

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12:00 - 13:00
12:00
5m
Talk
How Do I Refactor This? An Empirical Study on Refactoring Trends and Topics in Stack Overflow
Journal-First Papers
Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Steven Simmons Rochester Institute of Technology, Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec
Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached
12:05
5m
Talk
Industry’s Cry for Tools that Support Large-Scale Refactoring
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
James Ivers Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Robert Nord Software Engineering Institute, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Chris Seifried Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Christopher Steven Timperley Carnegie Mellon University, Marouane Kessentini Oakland University, USA
Pre-print Media Attached
12:10
5m
Talk
DrAsync: Identifying and Visualizing Anti-Patterns in Asynchronous JavaScriptBest Artifact Award
Technical Track
Alexi Turcotte Northeastern University, Michael D. Shah Northeastern University, USA, Mark W. Aldrich Tufts University, Frank Tip Northeastern University
Pre-print Media Attached
12:15
5m
Talk
Inferring And Applying Type Changes
Technical Track
Ameya Ketkar Oregon State University, USA, Oleg Smirnov JetBrains Research, Saint Petersburg State University, Nikolaos Tsantalis Concordia University, Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder, USA, Timofey Bryksin JetBrains Research; HSE University
Pre-print Media Attached
20:00 - 21:00
20:00
5m
Talk
How Do I Refactor This? An Empirical Study on Refactoring Trends and Topics in Stack Overflow
Journal-First Papers
Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Steven Simmons Rochester Institute of Technology, Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec
Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached
20:05
5m
Talk
Industry’s Cry for Tools that Support Large-Scale Refactoring
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
James Ivers Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Robert Nord Software Engineering Institute, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Chris Seifried Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Christopher Steven Timperley Carnegie Mellon University, Marouane Kessentini Oakland University, USA
Pre-print Media Attached
20:10
5m
Talk
Inferring And Applying Type Changes
Technical Track
Ameya Ketkar Oregon State University, USA, Oleg Smirnov JetBrains Research, Saint Petersburg State University, Nikolaos Tsantalis Concordia University, Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder, USA, Timofey Bryksin JetBrains Research; HSE University
Pre-print Media Attached

Fri 27 May

Displayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change

11:00 - 12:30
Papers 21: Programming Languages and RefactoringTechnical Track / SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice / Journal-First Papers / NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results at Room 306+307
Chair(s): Julian Dolby IBM Research, USA
11:00
5m
Talk
Grammars for Free: Toward Grammar Inference for Ad Hoc Parsers
NIER - New Ideas and Emerging Results
Michael Schröder TU Wien, Jürgen Cito TU Wien and Meta
Pre-print Media Attached
11:05
5m
Talk
Learning and Programming Challenges of Rust: A Mixed-Methods Study
Technical Track
Shuofei Zhu The Pennsylvania State University, Ziyi Zhang University of Wisconsin–Madison, Boqin Qin China Telecom Cloud Computing Corporation, Aiping Xiong The Pennsylvania State University, Linhai Song Pennsylvania State University, USA
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
11:10
5m
Talk
Garbage Collection Makes Rust Easier to Use: A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Bronze Garbage CollectorNominated for Distinguished Paper
Technical Track
Michael Coblenz University of Maryland at College Park, Michelle Mazurek University of Maryland, Michael Hicks University of Maryland at College Park
DOI Pre-print Media Attached
11:15
5m
Talk
How Do I Refactor This? An Empirical Study on Refactoring Trends and Topics in Stack Overflow
Journal-First Papers
Anthony Peruma Rochester Institute of Technology, Steven Simmons Rochester Institute of Technology, Eman Abdullah AlOmar Stevens Institute of Technology, Christian D. Newman Rochester Institute of Technology, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer Rochester Institute of Technology, Ali Ouni ETS Montreal, University of Quebec
Link to publication DOI Pre-print Media Attached
11:20
5m
Talk
Industry’s Cry for Tools that Support Large-Scale Refactoring
SEIP - Software Engineering in Practice
James Ivers Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Robert Nord Software Engineering Institute, Ipek Ozkaya Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Chris Seifried Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Christopher Steven Timperley Carnegie Mellon University, Marouane Kessentini Oakland University, USA
Pre-print Media Attached
11:25
5m
Talk
DrAsync: Identifying and Visualizing Anti-Patterns in Asynchronous JavaScriptBest Artifact Award
Technical Track
Alexi Turcotte Northeastern University, Michael D. Shah Northeastern University, USA, Mark W. Aldrich Tufts University, Frank Tip Northeastern University
Pre-print Media Attached
11:30
5m
Talk
Inferring And Applying Type Changes
Technical Track
Ameya Ketkar Oregon State University, USA, Oleg Smirnov JetBrains Research, Saint Petersburg State University, Nikolaos Tsantalis Concordia University, Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder, USA, Timofey Bryksin JetBrains Research; HSE University
Pre-print Media Attached

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Thu 12 May 2022 12:00 - 13:00 at ICSE room 4-even hours - Refactoring 2 Chair(s): Julian Dolby
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