Learning Syntactic Program Transformations from Examples

Understand

IDEs, such as Visual Studio, automate common transformations, such as Rename and Extract Method refactorings.

• However, extending these catalogs of transformations is complex and time-consuming.
• A similar phenomenon appears in intelligent tutoring systems where instructors have to write cumbersome code transformations that describe "common faults" to fix similar student submissions to programming assignments.
• We present REFAZER, a technique for automatically generating program transformations.