Refactoring Assistant
Purpose
In the context of software development, the term refactoring refers to the practice of changing the structure of a program without changing its behavior. Refactoring ranges from simple renaming of variables and classes to restructuring a class hierarchy by substituting inheritance with composition.
Refactoring aims at improving the design of a system in terms of reusability, extensibility and so on. Unfortunately, the practice of refactoring also puts at risk the semantic integrity of a software system because the process is very prone to errors.
The purpose of the Refactoring Assistant is to simplify and accelerate the process of refactoring ABAP source code.
Integration
The Refactoring Assistant is part of the ABAP Workbench and is integrated in the following tools:
· Class Builder
· Function Builder
· ABAP Editor.
Features
The Refactoring Assistant has the following features:
- Consistent renaming of local and global elements. For more information, see Consistent Renaming.
- Moving of elements (attributes from a method to the public section or from a function module to a top include)
- Generation of code templates.
Constraints
The following development objects cannot be refactored:
● Enhanced compilation units (for example, global classes, reports and so on). For more information, see Enhancement Framework.
● Includes containing two or more distinct compilation units.
See also:
Extracting Source Code Segments
Removing Unused Data Declarations