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tube42 / drumon

FOSS drum app for Android
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Refactor Internal Setter smell in PadItem class #23

Closed emaiannone closed 4 years ago

emaiannone commented 4 years ago

Hi, I'm Emanuele Iannone, a master student at University of Salerno. Since my bachelor's thesis I have been working on a code smell refactoring plugin called aDoctor, which is able to identify and fix energy-related problems in Android apps. I launched it on your project, finding different instances of code smells. I chose one of them and let the plugin automatically fix it. In this case I chose Internal Setter, that is present when non static method calls a setter method of an instance variable instead of directly changing its value. These kind of smell may have a non trivial impact on energy consumption, as shown in this paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950584918301678. Besides, this kind of refactoring does not impact on the functionalities of your app, so it is totally safe. Let me know if you are interested in this refactoring proposal.

tube42 commented 4 years ago

Maybe this is answered in the paper, but wouldn't either the android runtime or compile-time optimization tool do this subtitusion anyway?