Reengineering of WebAdmin package. 4406028-1517279 #16
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Our main contribution to the WebAdmin module is relocation of all HTML code from Java methods to Velocity templates. Such a division follows well-known MVC pattern and makes the maintenance of HTML code much easier. Moreover, as the complex rendering methods have been removed and replaced with simple data retrieval methods, these Java classes can be now tested with unit tests.
These refactoring changes also led to significant improvement of software metrics, which could be seen in the previous section. The classes and methods were generally shortened and contain methods with significantly lower cyclomatic complexity.