Refactorings ignore Public Interface

[jtu...@objektfabrik.de]

Hi there,

Refactorings and the RB are great ways of improving existing software. This is especially true in context of legacy projects where there are tons of old, partly really bad code.

The RB in VAST is a great tool, but it completely ignores the IS_ side of classes. Renaming an instance methods and its accessors works fine, but the public interface of a class is not touched by the RB.

Shouldn't the RB be extended to also rename attributes, events and actions in the public interface? I guess that can be tricky for visual connections and such, but this shhould surely be considered as a useful extension that can hep existing projects a lot with their huge code base...

Just an idea. What do others think about this?

Joachim

[Marten Feldtmann]

Then it must also considet infos hold in the repository !?

[jtu...@objektfabrik.de]

Right!
I didn't say it's easy ;-)
Maybe a good exercise for Academic Projects...