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Formalisation of Haskell Refactorings

Huiqing Li and Simon Thompson

In Marko van Eekelen and Kevin Hammond, editors, Trends in Functional Programming, September 2005.

Abstract

Refactoring is a well-known technique for improving the design of existing programs without changing their external behaviour. HaRe is the refactoring tool we have built to support refactoring Haskell programs. Along with the development of HaRe, This formalisation process helps to clarify the meaning of refactorings, improves our confidence in the behaviour-preservation of refactorings, and reduces the need for testing. This paper gives an overview of HaRe, and shows our approach to the formalisation of refactorings.



Bibtex Record

@conference{2250,
author = {Huiqing Li and Simon Thompson},
title = {{Formalisation of Haskell Refactorings}},
month = {September},
year = {2005},
pages = {},
keywords = {Haskell, refactoring, proof, HaRe, generalisation, move, module},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2005/2250},
    publication_type = {conference},
    submission_id = {1857_1127662259},
    booktitle = {Trends in Functional Programming},
    editor = {Marko van Eekelen and Kevin Hammond},
    refereed = {Yes},
}

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