Refactoring Tools: Quality and Acceptance
Hello there,
I have worked with many programming languages and many IDEs on quite large projects (between 100kloc and 2.000kloc).
I came to the conclusion that refactoring aids are a nice toy, but utterly useless in productive environments. Often, they just don't work. Either there are false positives or not all instances correctly refactored, or it is just so horrible slow that you are faster doing it manually.
Out of personal interest, I'd like to know whether this is just a personal experience, or whether this is the broad opinion across the community.
That's why I set up a survey to hear your opinions on this topic. Maybe I can learn something from it. (And maybe you can, too, if you are interested in this.)
It would be cool if you could fill out this survey:
http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/daniel-S2b/refactoring-tools/
It's only three quick questions.
Because this is just out of personal interest, of course I will publish the results here and on my blog.
DISLAIMER: I am NOT working in the programming tools industry, nor am I taking any commercial benefit from this survey. It is really just to get a good picture of what the reality looks like.
I have worked with many programming languages and many IDEs on quite large projects (between 100kloc and 2.000kloc).
I came to the conclusion that refactoring aids are a nice toy, but utterly useless in productive environments. Often, they just don't work. Either there are false positives or not all instances correctly refactored, or it is just so horrible slow that you are faster doing it manually.
Out of personal interest, I'd like to know whether this is just a personal experience, or whether this is the broad opinion across the community.
That's why I set up a survey to hear your opinions on this topic. Maybe I can learn something from it. (And maybe you can, too, if you are interested in this.)
It would be cool if you could fill out this survey:
http://fluidsurveys.com/surveys/daniel-S2b/refactoring-tools/
It's only three quick questions.
Because this is just out of personal interest, of course I will publish the results here and on my blog.
DISLAIMER: I am NOT working in the programming tools industry, nor am I taking any commercial benefit from this survey. It is really just to get a good picture of what the reality looks like.
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