The LAN-simulation: A Refactoring Teaching Example

Title	The {LAN}-simulation: A Refactoring Teaching Example
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2005
Authors	Demeyer, S, Van Rysselberghe F, Gîrba T, Ratzinger J, Marinescu R, Mens T, Du Bois B, Janssens D, Ducasse S, Lanza M, Rieger M, Gall H, El-Ramly M
Conference Name	Proceedings {IWPSE}'05 (8th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution)
Publisher	IEEE Press
Abstract	The notion of refactoring –-transforming the source-code of an object-oriented program without changing its external behaviour –- has been studied intensively within the last decade. This diversity has created a plethora of toy-examples, cases and code snippets, which make it hard to assess the current state-of-the-art. Moreover, due to this diversity, there is currently no accepted way of teaching good refactoring practices, despite the acknowledgment in the software engineering body of knowledge. Therefore, this paper presents a common example –-the LAN simulation–- which has been used by a number of European Universities for both research and teaching purposes.

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