TL;DR
IntelliTC is a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA that automates Java type change refactoring by leveraging data-driven API rewrite rules, improving developer productivity and reducing manual effort.
Contribution
This paper introduces IntelliTC, a novel IntelliJ IDEA plugin that automates Java type change refactoring using data-driven API rewrite rules, enhancing existing IDE support.
Findings
Developed three user support modes: Classic, Suggested, and Inspection.
Surveyed 22 developers who rated the tool as useful.
Source code and plugin are publicly available on GitHub.
Abstract
Developers often change types of program elements. Such refactoring often involves updating not only the type of the element itself, but also the API of all type-dependent references in the code, thus it is tedious and time-consuming. Despite type changes being more frequent than renamings, just a few current IDE tools provide partially-automated support only for a small set of hard-coded types. Researchers have recently proposed a data-driven approach to inferring API rewrite rules for type change patterns in Java using code commits history. In this paper, we build upon these recent advances and introduce IntelliTC - a tool to perform Java type change refactoring. We implemented it as a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA, a popular Java IDE developed by JetBrains. We present 3 different ways of providing support for such a refactoring from the standpoint of the user experience: Classic mode,…
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