Importance of Correctness in Automated Refactoring with OpenRewrite

This chapter emphasizes the significance of correctness in automated refactoring with OpenRewrite, utilizing abstract syntax trees and type attribution for accurate refactoring changes. It explores the challenges of maintaining stylistic consistency within a codebase and the limitations of using regular expressions for automated refactoring, illustrated through a real-life example from Netflix. The chapter also covers the implementation of OpenRewrite in Java, its support for multiple programming languages, and the concept of parsers for converting code text into a lossless semantic tree.