We provide an extensive overview of existing research in the field of software refactoring.
This research is compared and discussed based on a number of different criteria: the …

The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

Like other software artefacts, metamodels evolve over time. We propose a transformational
approach to assist metamodel evolution by stepwise adaptation. In the first part of the paper …

Grammarware comprises grammars and all grammar-dependent software. The term
grammar is meant here in the sense of all established grammar formalisms and grammar …

The widespread interest in refactoring—transforming the source‐code of an object‐oriented
program without changing its external behaviour—has increased the need for a precise …

Modern IDEs for object-oriented languages like Java provide support for a basic set of
simple automated refactorings whose behaviour is easy to describe intuitively. It is, however …

We discuss the nuts and bolts of industrial large-scale software modification projects. These
projects become necessary when system owners of deployed systems hit architectural …

The number of possible refactorings is unlimited, so no tool vendor will ever be able to
provide custom refactorings for all specific user needs. Therefore, we propose a new kind of …

Refactorings are source-to-source program transformations which change program structure
and organisation, but not program functionality. Documented in catalogues and supported …

Strafunski is a Haskell-centred software bundle for implementing language processing
components—most notably program analyses and transformations. Typical application …