Definição e validação de refatoramentos de software em larga escala.

Abstract

This dissertation describes how to deal with problems caused by the loss of structure in software systems with thousands of line of code that were produced without the use of refactoring techniques and a good test suite. The purpose of this research is to organize the restructuring of large software systems by defining appropriate refactoring techniques. First, it defines several large refactorings and their application to a large scale real software system. In order to evaluate the benefits of this collection of refactorings, an evaluation model is presented and applied to the system used as case study.