Refactoring module structure
László Lövei, Csaba Hoch, Hanna Köllö, Tamás Nagy, Anikó Nagyné Víg, Dániel Horpácsi, Róbert Kitlei, Roland Király · 2008
This paper focuses on restructuring software written in Erlang. In large software projects, it is a common problem that internal structural complexity can grow to an extent where maintenance becomes impossible. This situation can be avoided by careful design, building loosely coupled components with strictly defined interfaces. However, when these design decisions are not made in the right time, it becomes necessary to split an already working software into such components, without breaking its functionality. There is strong industrial demand for such transformations in refactoring legacy code.