The LAN-simulation: A Refactoring Teaching Example

The notion of refactoring —transforming the sourcecode of an object-oriented program without changing its external behaviour — has been studied intensively within the last decade. This diversity has created a plethora of toy-examples, cases and code snippets, which make it hard to assess the current state-of-the-art. Moreover, due to this diversity, there is currently no accepted way of teaching good refactoring practices, despite the acknowledgment in the software engineering body of knowledge. Therefore, this paper presents a common example —the LAN simulation— which has been used by a number of European Universities for both research and teaching purposes.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: IWPSE
• Authors: Serge Demeyer, Filip Van Rysselberghe, Tudor Gîrba, Jacek Ratzinger, Radu Marinescu, Tom Mens, Bart Du Bois, Dirk Janssens, Stéphane Ducasse, Michele Lanza, Matthias Rieger, Harald Gall, Mohammad El-Ramly
• Keywords: Example —the Lan, External Behaviour, IWPSE 2005, Software Engineering Body Of Knowledge