Useful links

Eclipse JDT / AST

• Abstract Syntax Tree (Eclipse Corner Article)

  • JDT Core > Manipulating Java code

  • Plugging into the workbench > plugin.xml > org.eclipse.ui.menus

• Excellent presentation about JDT, design decisions, hard to discover APIs and their usage

  • How To Train the JDT Dragon

• Description of how to implement refactorings with LTK

  • Unleashing the Power of Refactoring (Eclipse Corner Article)

• Describes LTK:

  • Eclipse CDT refactoring overview and internals

• Describes LTK + explains transition from Eclipse 3.X code to e4 code

  • Eclipse Architecture and Patterns

• Navigating through JDT and LTK code base

  • Eclipse Refactoring

Misc

• CFG analysis puzzlers

• Interesting list of Legacy APIs for AutoRefactor to ``fix'':

  • modernizer-maven-plugin

Tools similar to AutoRefactor

• Spartan Refactoring, an Eclipse plugin that applies the principles of Spartan programming to your Java source code

  • Based on Spartan programming by Itay Maman

  • Jeff Atwood speaks about Spartan programming also in Code smaller and The Best Code is No Code At All.

• An attempt at removing duplicate code in C / C++ code bases

• clang-tidy

• gofix

• LAMBDAFICATOR: Crossing the gap from imperative to functional programming through refactorings

• pfff and Codemod

  • pfff is a set of tools and OCaml APIs to write program analysis, source code indexer, code visualizations, code navigations, or style-preserving source-to-source transformations such as refactorings on source code with support for many programming langages

  • Codemod is a tool/library to assist you with large-scale codebase refactors that can be partially automated but still require human oversight and occasional intervention

  • If I had found these tools, I may never have started AutoRefactor

• Eclipse plugins for Java code:

  • The Unnecessary Code Detector: UCDetector, an Eclipse plugin that reduces visibility of fields, methods, types, etc. and can suggest when to use final for fields. Done by Johannes Neubauer

  • jDeodorant

    • Giri Panamoottil Krishnan, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, ``Unification and Refactoring of Clones'', IEEE CSMR-WCRE 2014 Software Evolution Week(CSMR-WCRE’2014), Antwerp, Belgium, February 3-7, 2014.

  • Tane eclipse refactorings, by Lance Walton and Channing Walton.

How to write AutoRefactor tools for other languages

• C/C++: Eclipse CDT, clang

• Python: https://docs.python.org/2/library/ast.html

• JavaScript: Eclipse JSDT

Inspiring practices for writing more readable code

The following books/articles/videos are inspiring, I do not say all recommendations must absolutely be followed, but many things are looking right:

• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, by Martin Fowler

• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, by Robert C. Martin, alias Uncle Bob

• Object Calisthenics, 9 steps to better software design today, by Jeff Bay

• Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers, Kevlin Henney

• Spartan programming by Itay Maman

Bibliography

• Reconciling manual and automatic refactoring

• Interesting refactoring exercises

• Refactoring research homepage

• Sixth ACM Workshop on Refactoring Tools

• Similar to my extract method: Maintaining Clones through Eclipse Refactoring Extensions

• Search for PDF: ``Identification of extract method refactoring opportunities for the decomposition of methods''