Our paper titled "Identification of Extract Method Refactoring Opportunities" has been accepted at 13^th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'09).

This paper presents a methodology for the decomposition of large and complex methods by extracting the computation of variables into new methods. The suggested slice extraction refactorings contain the complete computation of a given variable, are behavior-preserving and result in code that is not excessively duplicated in the original and extracted method.

You can watch a demonstration of the proposed Slice Extraction methodology, as implemented in JDeodorant Eclipse plug-in, in the Screencasts section. You can also download the camera-ready version of the paper from the Publications section.