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Using Attribute Slicing to Refactor Large Classes

Authors: Douglas Kirk, Marc Roper, and Neil Walkinshaw

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5451, Beyond Program Slicing (2006)

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It can often be the case in object-oriented programming that classes bloat, particularly if the represent an ill-formed abstraction. A poorly formed class tends to be formed from disjoint sets of methods and attributes. This can result in a loss of cohesion within the class. Slicing attributes can be used to identify and make explicit the relationships between attributes and the methods that refer to them. This can be a useful tool for identifying code smells and ultimately refactoring. Attribute slicing can also be used to examine the relationships between attributes, as is the case in decomposition slicing. This paper introduces attribute slicing in the context of refactoring bloated classes.

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Douglas Kirk, Marc Roper, and Neil Walkinshaw. Using Attribute Slicing to Refactor Large Classes. In Beyond Program Slicing. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5451, pp. 1-12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)

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@InProceedings{kirk_et_al:DagSemProc.05451.10,
  author =	{Kirk, Douglas and Roper, Marc and Walkinshaw, Neil},
  title =	{{Using Attribute Slicing to Refactor Large Classes}},
  booktitle =	{Beyond Program Slicing},
  pages =	{1--12},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{5451},
  editor =	{David W. Binkley and Mark Harman and Jens Krinke},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05451.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-4907},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.05451.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Refactoring, cohesion, object-oriented slicing}
}

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