Steve Counsell (Brunel University)

Mini-tutorial

30 minutes

You will need: Eyes, Ears, Mouth

A whistle-stop tour of empirical experience of refactoring in open-source – and the state-of-the-art of theory and practice interplay.

Steve will discuss a range of published studies which suggest that, while refactoring is a great idea, refactoring trends in the data extracted from open-source present a range of problems and challenges.

Steve would like, in the first instance, to stimulate ‘heated’ debate about refactoring experiences, initiate practical research collaborations with interested participants and finally, hand-in-hand with that, to explore the possibility of publishing a survey paper of state-of-the-art ‘current problems and issues’ in Agile Development/Refactoring (Industry and Academia) to further expose results from the Workshop.

About The Presenter:

Dr Steve Counsell is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University. He was an industrial developer in a previous life; he has a PhD from London University; has published in Software Engineering Journals and Conferences since 1996; research interests more specifically in refactoring, software testing and software metrics; current holder of UK EPSRC grant for investigating these issues and coinvestigator on program slicing on another EPSRC grant.