A Systematic Review of the Literature of the Techniques to Perform Transformations in Software Engineering / Uma revisão sistemática da literatura das técnicas para realizar transformações na engenharia de software

Authors

  • Reudismam Rolim de Sousa Brazilian Journals Publicações de Periódicos, São José dos Pinhais, Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34117/bjdv6n7-361

Keywords:

Systematic Review of the Literature, Transformations, Software Engineering.

Abstract

Along with software evolution, developers may do repetitive edits. These edits can be identical or similar to different codebase locations, which may occur as developers add features, refactor, or fix a bug. Since some of these edits are not present in Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), they are often performed manually, which is time-consuming and error-prone. In order to help developers to apply repetitive edits, some techniques were proposed. In this work, we present a systematic review of the literature of the techniques to do transformations in software engineering. As a result, this systematic review returned 51 works ranging from the domains programming-by-examples, linked editing, API usage, bug fixing, complex refactoring, and complex transformations, which can be used to help tools' designer in the proposition of new approaches.

 

 

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de Sousa, R. R. (2020). A Systematic Review of the Literature of the Techniques to Perform Transformations in Software Engineering / Uma revisão sistemática da literatura das técnicas para realizar transformações na engenharia de software. Brazilian Journal of Development, 6(7), 46927–46949. https://doi.org/10.34117/bjdv6n7-361

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