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Cleaning up Erlang code is a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it

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Thanassis Avgerinos,

Konstantinos SagonasAuthors Info & Claims

ERLANG '09: Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN workshop on ERLANG

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1596600.1596602

Published: 05 September 2009 Publication History

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This paper describes opportunities for automatically modernizing Erlang applications, cleaning them up, eliminating certain bad smells from their code and occasionally also improving their performance. In addition, we present concrete examples of code improvements and our experiences from using a software tool with these capabilities, tidier, on Erlang code bases of significant size.

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Cleaning up Erlang code is a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering

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ERLANG '09: Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGPLAN workshop on ERLANG

September 2009

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ISBN:9781605585079

DOI:10.1145/1596600

General Chair:
Clara Benac Earle
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
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University of Kent, UK

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da Matta Vegi LValente M(2023)Towards a Catalog of Refactorings for Elixir2023 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)10.1109/ICSME58846.2023.00045(358-362)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2023
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Tsikoudis NSugiyama MAronis SOzkan B(2022)Troubleshooting the performance of a large Erlang systemProceedings of the 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Erlang10.1145/3546186.3549926(2-8)Online publication date: 6-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546186.3549926
Poór BToth MBozó IBieniusa AFördős V(2020)Transformations towards clean functional codeProceedings of the 19th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Erlang10.1145/3406085.3409010(24-30)Online publication date: 23-Aug-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3406085.3409010
Drienyovszky DHorpácsi DThompson SFritchie SSagonas K(2010)Quickchecking refactoring toolsProceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang10.1145/1863509.1863521(75-80)Online publication date: 30-Sep-2010
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Sagonas KAvgerinos TPorto ALópez-Fraguas F(2009)Automatic refactoring of Erlang programsProceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Principles and practice of declarative programming10.1145/1599410.1599414(13-24)Online publication date: 7-Sep-2009
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