RANKING REFACTORING PATTERNS USING THE ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS

Eduardo Piveta, Ana Moreira, Marcelo Pimenta, João Araújo, Pedro Guerreiro, R. Tom Price

2008

Abstract

This paper describes how to rank refactoring patterns to improve a set of quality attributes of a piece of software. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to express the relative importance of the quality attributes and the relative importance of refactoring patterns in regards to those selected quality attributes. This ranking of refactoring patterns can be used to focus the refactoring effort on the most beneficial patterns to the software being developed or maintained.

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in Harvard Style

Piveta E., Moreira A., Pimenta M., Araújo J., Guerreiro P. and Tom Price R. (2008). RANKING REFACTORING PATTERNS USING THE ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 195-200. DOI: 10.5220/0001686001950200


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Eduardo Piveta and Ana Moreira and Marcelo Pimenta and João Araújo and Pedro Guerreiro and R. Tom Price},
title={RANKING REFACTORING PATTERNS USING THE ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={195-200},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001686001950200},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,
TI - RANKING REFACTORING PATTERNS USING THE ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Piveta E.
AU - Moreira A.
AU - Pimenta M.
AU - Araújo J.
AU - Guerreiro P.
AU - Tom Price R.
PY - 2008
SP - 195
EP - 200
DO - 10.5220/0001686001950200