CIREF: uma ferramenta para visualização do contexto histórico de fatorações em projeto java

Abstract

Refactorings are actions developers don’t often do or in a standard way. One of the reasons is the lack of visualizations in current tools capable of identifying refactorings. Code views can help developers make decisions about analyzing code quality and possible code refactorings. In this context, this work presents the development of the CIref tool, a tool capable of analyzing the historical context of refactorings in projects written in JAVA language and providing visualizations of the refactorings found in them. It also allows each project to have its ranking of importance of the types of refactorings, duels between developers to know the profile of each of the collaborators, and the visualization of the timeline of the number of refactorings carried out in the project. The tool was validated based on the TAM (Technology Acceptance Model) model with 8 developers with more than two years of experience. The evaluation showed that 75% of the participants agreed with the future use of the tool and the ease of use of the tool.