An empirical investigation into code smells rectifications through ADA_BOOSTER

• Main Authors: M. Sangeetha, C. Chandrasekar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
• Series: Ain Shams Engineering Journal
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447919300012

Object Oriented Programming has become one of the most established paradigms. It offers us features like encapsulation, polymorphism, inheritance etc. By using these features we are able to develop good software’s that are easy to understand. But when the size of the software goes on increasing it poses problems with respect to maintaining the source code. Also we come across the problems like code scattering and code tangling. So object oriented programming has some limitations and this is where Aspect Oriented Programming comes into play. Refactoring is one of the most important activities in software development. It is done to improve the design of the software, to make the software easier and better to understand and to help us in writing programs faster. After the software is refactored, it is important to note the behaviour of that software. Here, we propose new refactorings technique. The refactorings are identified. They are applied on the Systems. The ADA_BOOSTER technique to measure the metrics. By using refactoring we can change the existing software without affecting the behaviour of the software. Keywords: Software refactoring, Code smell, Smell identifications, Smell rectifications, ADA-Booster