William F. Opdyke

Refactoring object-oriented frameworks

This thesis defines a set of program restructuring operations (refactorings) that support the design, evolution and reuse of object-oriented application frameworks. The focus of...

Creating abstract superclasses by refactoring

This paper focuses on object-oriented programming and one kind of structure-improving transformation (refactoring) that is unique to object-oriented programming: finding abstrac...

Refactoring and aggregation

Lifecycle and refactoring patterns that support evolution and reuse

Superclass is another third-later pattern defined in this paper. During consolidation abstractions common to two of more classes can be moved to a common abstract superclass. Th...