Investigation Features of Identifier Renamings

Abstract

A change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing its observable behavior… It is a disciplined way to clean up code that minimizes the chances of introducing bugs. To facilitate software refactoring, a number of approaches and tools have been proposed to suggest when refactoring should be conducted. Renaming is part of refactoring. Comparing two versions of a program is complicated if renaming has occurred. In this paper we propose an approach to automatically document-detect in source code. Using documented renaming, developers will be able to look for inconsistencies between the name and the implementation of an entity that underwent a high risk renaming.