PROJECT TITLE :

Refactoring for Asynchronous Execution on Mobile Devices

ABSTRACT:

To enhance responsiveness, developers often use asynchronous programming. In the post-COMPUTER era, asynchronous programming is even a lot of in demand as a result of mobile and wearable devices have restricted resources and access the network excessively. One current development task is refactoring long-running, blocking synchronous code (for instance, accessing the Web, a cloud, a database, or a file system) into nonblocking asynchronous code. This text describes the refactorings that improve responsiveness, together with the obstacles of using asynchrony. It additionally discusses the challenges of retrofitting asynchrony and presents program analyses and transformations and a growing, practical toolset and resources for retrofitting asynchrony. This article is half of a special issue on Refactoring.