Eclipse: Most useful refactorings
Every now and again, I make use of the Eclipse refactoring feature. Some techniques are more obvious then others and some I never tried.
What refactoring is most useful for you and why?
Note: I find this presentation very useful, perhaps because it is example driven therefore easy to understand:
"Refactoring for everyone - How and why to use Eclipse's automated refactoring features"
Edit: This article is useful as well (Thanks jitter)
Answer
It is an interesting question. I know what works for me and it is interesting to see what others use.
I decided to take a more scientific approach to determine the most commonly used refactoring commands. Eclipse has a Usage Data Collector (UDC) feature built in. The data is publicly available. I took the data and extracted the following graph which shows the most commonly used editing commands (without navigation commands).
alt text http://img.skitch.com/20091207-bmcng36rjy837sqmcx58b85age.gif
However, I am a strong believer in "Save Actions" for formatting and organizing imports (read my article about it), so I wouldn't count those. I would also remove the commenting actions. The picture looks like this: alt text http://img.skitch.com/20091207-ieas1mk5114fwitucqkqxyw6t.gif
