A Tool Supporting Postponable Refactoring

Failures of precondition checking when attempting to apply automated refactorings often discourage programmers from attempting to use these refactorings in the future. To alleviate this situation, the postponement of the failed refactoring instead its cancellation is beneficial. This poster paper proposes a new concept of postponable refactoring and a prototype tool that implements postponable Extract Method as an Eclipse plug-in. We believe that this refactoring tool inspires a new field of reconciliation automated and manual refactoring.