I'm working on an Eclipse plug-in that aims to go beyond spell-checking (although it will implicitly do that too), into verifying that the name you choose for your method fits the implementation. This is possible to do since you can extract the approximate semantics of method names from a large set of implementations -- in short, since most get methods tend to do roughly the same stuff, you can capture the essence of what "get" means. A nifty feature that I'd like to work in as well is the ability to automatically generate a reasonable name when performing an "extract method" refactoring.
See my papers for details.
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I'm working on an Eclipse plug-in that aims to go beyond spell-checking (although it will implicitly do that too), into verifying that the name you choose for your method fits the implementation. This is possible to do since you can extract the approximate semantics of method names from a large set of implementations -- in short, since most get methods tend to do roughly the same stuff, you can capture the essence of what "get" means. A nifty feature that I'd like to work in as well is the ability to automatically generate a reasonable name when performing an "extract method" refactoring. See my papers for details.