Kostas Stroggylos PhD research plan

Following the research proposal, the research plan outline is as follows:

• Aug 08: Complete the UmlDiff implementation (JDevAn port/optimization) for refactoring detection
• Sep 08: Perform tests with the search-based and the UmlDiff-based method for detecting refactorings
• Dec 08: Perform comparative analysis of refactoring usage on commercial and OSS projects (requires collaboration with software vendors), report results
• Feb 09: Validation of the above results, and the 'refactor to make adding new functionality easy' pattern in both worlds
• Apr 09: Start writing final thesis

More detailed plan to follow.