Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: The meaning of source code is often described by unit tests, as is for example the case in Test-Driven Software Development. Test-driven development is a principle in software engineering that requires developers to write tests for each method before implementing the method itself. This ensures that for (at least) all public methods tests exist. When performing a refactoring, existing code is changed or restructured according to a predefined scheme. After a refactoring is applied, the alignment beten the structure of source code and corresponding unit tests can be broken.     describe different ways in which refactorings can impact the API coverage of unit tests.  present our approach of tracking the modifications made by refactorings, analyzing their influence on the existing test suite and giving advice to developers on how to update the test suite to migrate it. For example, tests may need to be moved or new tests developed in case a refactoring introduced new public methods. Our approach is applicable to all refactorings.  conclude this paper by discussing the potential of the presented approach and of the preliminary tool support in the Eclipse IDE.
['Harrie Passier', 'Lex Bijlsma', 'Christoph Bockisch']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Maintaining Unit Tests During Refactoring
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