Code Restructuring : Tool for Quality Improvment

w w w . i j c s t . c o m Abstract Refactoring/restructuring is important part of maintenance activities which improves software quality. This paper focuses on various methods for restructuring for procedural languages, object oriented languages and web based applications. Restructuring activities are taken place in code to improve the quality of the software application.Repetative code components, frequent item sets, Long classes, God classes in the code are the main areas where restructuring can be applied. Different methods like extract method, rename method, move method, pull-up method are applied in different situations. These methods are used in combinations and conflicts should be avoided while applying the restructurings.