Welcome to the manual page of RefactorErl!

​RefactorErl is a source code analyser and transformer tool for ​Erlang, developed at ​Eötvös Loránd University, ​Budapest, ​Hungary.

This wiki aims to help our users understand the main features of the tool and to guide their everyday use. If you are new to RefactorErl, you can find some installation and configuration instructions.

Getting started

• How to install the tool
• How to configure RefactorErl? / Web Interface? / Emacs / Eclipse / Vim?

• How to start the tool in normal? / server? / client? mode

Analysing Source Code

• HowtoAddFiles?
• HowtoAddIncludePaths?
• Handling errors at initial loading?

Feature Highlights

• Static analysis
  • Side effects?
  • Data-flow?
  • Dynamic function calls
  • Module and function dependencies
  • Interface layer consistency check

• Program comprehension (grokking)
  • Custom (ad-hoc) semantic queries (see the reference of available components)
  • Pre-defined semantic queries (available via the web interface)
  • Metric queries

• Code refactoring: 24 different refactoring steps

• Module and function clustering

• Multiple storage back-ends: Mnesia and C++ graph based

User Interfaces

• Interactive and scriptable Erlang shell interface
• Web interface
• Linux shell interface (CLI)
• Emacs/XEmacs interface
• Eclipse, Vim plugin