Call for Submissions: 5th Workshop on Refactoring Tools

CALL for SUBMISSIONS

   5th Workshop on Refactoring Tools
   http://refactoring.info/WRT12
   June 1, 2012
   adjacent to ICSE'12
   Rapperswil, Switzerland

IMPORTANT DATES:
-          Submission deadline: March 18, 2012
-          Notification of Acceptance: April 20, 2012
-          Camera Ready: May 13, 2012
-          Workshop date: June 1, 2012

MOTIVATION

Refactoring is the process of applying behavior-preserving transformations to
a program with the objective of improving the program's design. A specific
refactoring is identified by a name (e.g., Extract Method), a set of
preconditions, and a set of specific transformations that need to be performed.
Tool support for refactoring is highly desirable because checking the
preconditions for a given refactoring often requires nontrivial program
analysis, and applying the transformations may affect many locations throughout
a program. In recent years, the emergence of light-weight programming
methodologies such as Extreme Programming has generated a great amount of
interest in refactoring, and refactoring support has become a required feature
in modern-day IDEs. Until recently, there has not been a suitable forum for
discussions among researchers and developers of such tools. Our prior
refactoring tools workshops (at ECOOP 2007, then at OOPSLA 2008, OOPSLA 2009,
and at ICSE 2011) clearly met a need, and there was strong interest expressed