WRT 2011 - Fourth Workshop on Refactoring Tools (WRT'11)

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Category WRT 2011

Deadline: January 21, 2011 | Date: May 22, 2011

Venue/Country: Hawaii, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-12-30 12:50:10 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

http://refactoring.info/WRT11

Refactoring is the process of applying behavior-preserving transformations to a program with the objective of improving the program's design. A specific refactoring is identified by a name (e.g., Extract Method), a set of preconditions, and a set of specific transformations that need to be performed.

Tool support for refactoring is highly desirable because checking the preconditions for a given refactoring often requires nontrivial program analysis, and applying the transformations may affect many locations throughout a program. In recent years, the emergence of light-weight programming methodologies such as Extreme Programming has generated a great amount of interest in refactoring, and refactoring support has become a required feature in modern-day IDEs.

Until recently, there has not been a suitable forum for discussions among researchers and developers of such tools. Our prior refactoring tools workshops (initially at ECOOP 2007, then at OOPSLA 2008, 2009) clearly met a need, and there was strong interest expressed in holding a follow-on workshop.

We invite developers and researchers in the field of refactoring to submit presentations and demonstration proposals about practical refactoring tools.

GOALS

While there is a great deal of interest in developing tool support for refactoring, researchers and tool vendors rarely work together.

This forum will enable the transfer of ideas and expertise both ways:

researchers can show the state-of-the-art analyses they are using in developing tool support for refactoring,

tool vendors can offer valuable insights on the challenges of scaling such analyses to realistic applications.

By bringing together researchers and tool vendors:

we can shorten the time to embody ideas into production systems.

In addition, by making researchers aware of what others are working on, the potential for reinventing the wheel is reduced while the potential for creative collaboration is enhanced.

This workshop is the next step in our ongoing effort to create such a community, building on our successful refactoring workshops at ECOOP 2007 and OOPSLA 2008.

Potential topics are those related to refactoring tools including, but not restricted to:

refactoring engines

improving the usability of existing refactoring engines

tool performance

efficient representation of source models

program analyses for refactoring tools

tools for detecting applied refactorings

tools for suggesting refactorings (e.g., using code-smell detection)

testing and verification of refactoring tools

language-independent analysis frameworks and analytical representations

language-independent transformation frameworks

language-independent refactoring tools

refactoring tools for non-OO languages (e.g., functional languages, MDE, legacy languages)

composition and scripting of refactorings

medium- and large-scale refactorings (e.g. package-level, component-level)

refactoring for concurrency and parallelism

PROGRAM

All accepted papers will be published electronically and will be available from the ACM DL. The proceedings will also be available on the ICSE USB stick.

ORGANIZATIONAL DETAILS

Prospective participants in this workshop are encouraged to submit (i) 4-page position papers about new or emerging ideas, or (ii) 8-page full papers about prototypes that have preliminary results. We also encourage developers of widely used refactoring tools (e.g., Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ, Visual Studio) to submit a demonstration proposal about their systems or present upcoming features.

Based on submissions, the schedule will include a mix of system demonstrations, short presentations, panel discussions and informal discussions. Proceedings will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

Submissions must not exceed the page limit for their respective category, and must use the ICSE'11 format. Templates for Word and LaTeX are available at ICSE'11 Format and Submission Guidelines.

SUBMISSION

SUBMISSION WILL OPEN SOON.

Submissions for WRT'11 will be handled through EasyChair. If you don't have an account, you can create one here.

ORGANIZERS

Danny Dig, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (main contact)

Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin, USA, (co-chair)

Ira Baxter, Semantic Designs, USA

Jan Becicka, Oracle/NetBeans, Czek Republic

Danny Dig, University of Illinois, USA, (co-chair)

Bob Fuhrer, IBM TJ Watson, USA

Bill Griswold, University of California - San Diego, USA

Dmitry Jemerov, JetBrains/ IntellijIDEA, Russia, pending response

Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois, USA

Joshua Kerievsky, Industrial Logic, USA

Miryung Kim, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Radu Marinescu, Politechnics University of Timisora, Romania

Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State University, USA

David Notkin, University of Washington, USA

Bill Opdyke, Motorola, USA

Kevin Pilch-Bisson, Microsoft/ Visual Studio, USA

Don Roberts, University of Evansville, pending response

Max Schaefer, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK

Frank Tip, IBM TJ Watson, USA

Jan Wloka, IBM Zurich/ Eclipse, Switzerland