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Design recovery and maintenance of build systems 设计构建系统的恢复和维护
2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Pub Date : 2007-10-22 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362624
Bram Adams, H. Tromp, K. Schutter, W. Meuter
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引用次数: 100
Package Surface Blueprints: Visually Supporting the Understanding of Package Relationships 包装表面蓝图:直观地支持对包装关系的理解
2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Pub Date : 2007-10-22 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362622
Stéphane Ducasse, Damien Pollet, Mathieu Suen, H. Abdeen, Ilham Alloui
{"title":"Package Surface Blueprints: Visually Supporting the Understanding of Package Relationships","authors":"Stéphane Ducasse, Damien Pollet, Mathieu Suen, H. Abdeen, Ilham Alloui","doi":"10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362622","url":null,"abstract":"Large object-oriented applications are structured over large number of packages. Packages are important but complex structural entities that may be difficult to understand since they play different development roles (i.e., class containers, code ownership basic structure, architectural elements...). Maintainers of large applications face the problem of understanding how packages are structured in general and how they relate to each others. In this paper, we present a compact visualization, named Package Surface Blueprint, that qualifies the relationships that a package has with its neighbours. A Package Surface Blueprint represents packages around the notion of package surfaces: groups of relationships according to the packages they refer to. We present two specific views one stressing the references made by a package and another showing the inheritance structure of a package. We applied the visualization on two large case studies: ArgoUML and Squeak.","PeriodicalId":263470,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115651124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 57
JAT: A Test Automation Framework for Multi-Agent Systems JAT:多代理系统的测试自动化框架
2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Pub Date : 2007-10-22 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362655
Roberta Coelho, Elder Cirilo, U. Kulesza, Arndt von Staa, A. Rashid, C. Lucena
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引用次数: 38
Release Pattern Discovery: A Case Study of Database Systems 发布模式发现:数据库系统的案例研究
2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Pub Date : 2007-10-22 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362641
Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, R. Holt
{"title":"Release Pattern Discovery: A Case Study of Database Systems","authors":"Abram Hindle, Michael W. Godfrey, R. Holt","doi":"10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362641","url":null,"abstract":"Studying the release-time activities of a software project - that is, activities that occur around the time of a major or minor release - can provide insights into both the development processes used and the nature of the system itself. Although tools rarely record detailed logs of developer behavior, we can infer release-time activities from available data, such as logs from revision control systems, bug tracking systems, etc. In this paper, we discuss the results of a case study in mining patterns of release-time behavior from the revision control systems of four open source database systems. We partitioned the development artifacts into four classes - source code, tests, build files, and documentation - to be able to characterize the behavioral patterns more precisely. We found, for example, that there were consistent activity patterns around release time within each of the individual projects; we also found that these patterns did not persist across systems, leading us to hypothesize that the four projects follow different but consistent development patterns of activity around releases.","PeriodicalId":263470,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116292863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 15
System-level Usage Dependency Analysis of Object-Oriented Systems 面向对象系统的系统级使用依赖分析
2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Pub Date : 2007-10-22 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362650
Xinyi Dong, Michael W. Godfrey
{"title":"System-level Usage Dependency Analysis of Object-Oriented Systems","authors":"Xinyi Dong, Michael W. Godfrey","doi":"10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362650","url":null,"abstract":"Uncovering, modelling, and understanding architectural level dependencies of software systems is a key task for software maintainers. However, current dependency analysis techniques for object-oriented software are targeted at the class or method level; this is because most dependencies - such as instantiates, references, and calls - must be interpreted in the context of one or more class hierarchies. In this paper, we propose an approach, called the high-level object dependency graph (HODG), that captures all possible usage dependencies among coarse-grained entities. Based on the new model, we further propose a set of dependency analysis methods. Finally, we present an exploratory case study using HODGs - supported by an automated analysis tool - of the Apache Ant build system; we show how HODG analysis can help maintainers capture external properties of coarse-grained entities, and better understand the nature of their interdependencies.","PeriodicalId":263470,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127045222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 21
Re-computing Coverage Information to Assist Regression Testing 重新计算覆盖率信息以辅助回归测试
2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Pub Date : 2007-10-22 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362629
Pavan Kumar Chittimalli, M. J. Harrold
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引用次数: 18
Feature Location and Extraction using Landmarks and Barriers 使用地标和障碍的特征定位和提取
2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Pub Date : 2007-10-22 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362618
Neil Walkinshaw, M. Roper, M. Wood
{"title":"Feature Location and Extraction using Landmarks and Barriers","authors":"Neil Walkinshaw, M. Roper, M. Wood","doi":"10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362618","url":null,"abstract":"Identifying and isolating the source code associated with a particular feature is a problem that frequently arises in many maintenance tasks. The delocalised nature of object-oriented systems, where the code associated with a feature is distributed across many interrelated objects, makes this problem particularly challenging. This paper presents an approach that combines landmark' methods that have a key role in the execution of a particular feature with slicing to create a call graph of related code. The size of this call graph is constrained by the identification of 'barrier' methods which exclude parts of the graph that are not of interest. The approach is supported by a tool, and the evaluation on three open-source systems yields encouraging results and demonstrates the practical applicability of the technique.","PeriodicalId":263470,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133229568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 27
Combinatorial Interaction Regression Testing: A Study of Test Case Generation and Prioritization 组合交互回归测试:测试用例生成和优先级的研究
2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Pub Date : 2007-10-22 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362638
Xiao Qu, Myra B. Cohen, Katherine M. Woolf
{"title":"Combinatorial Interaction Regression Testing: A Study of Test Case Generation and Prioritization","authors":"Xiao Qu, Myra B. Cohen, Katherine M. Woolf","doi":"10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362638","url":null,"abstract":"Regression testing is an expensive part of the software maintenance process. Effective regression testing techniques select and order (or prioritize) test cases between successive releases of a program. However, selection and prioritization are dependent on the quality of the initial test suite. An effective and cost efficient test generation technique is combinatorial interaction testing, CIT, which systematically samples all t-way combinations of input parameters. Research on CIT, to date, has focused on single version software systems. There has been little work that empirically assesses the use of CIT test generation as the basis for selection or prioritization. In this paper we examine the effectiveness of CIT across multiple versions of two software subjects. Our results show that CIT performs well in finding seeded faults when compared with an exhaustive test set. We examine several CIT prioritization techniques and compare them with a re-generation/prioritization technique. We find that prioritized and re-generated/prioritized CIT test suites may find faults earlier than unordered CIT test suites, although the re-generated/prioritized test suites sometimes exhibit decreased fault detection.","PeriodicalId":263470,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129342305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 168
Maintaining Multi-Tier Web Applications 维护多层Web应用程序
2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Pub Date : 2007-10-22 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362648
Xiaoyu Zheng, Mei-Hwa Chen
{"title":"Maintaining Multi-Tier Web Applications","authors":"Xiaoyu Zheng, Mei-Hwa Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362648","url":null,"abstract":"Large-scale multi-tier web applications are inherently dynamic, complex, heterogeneous and constantly evolving. Maintaining such applications is important yet inevitably expensive. First, the size of the test suite of an evolving system will be continuously growing. Second, to ensure that the changes will not affect the quality of the systems, regression testing is frequently performed. To effectively and efficiently maintain web applications after each change, obsolete test cases must be removed and regression testing should selectively re-test. To this end there is a need for an inter-tier change impact analysis, which requires a coherent model rendering inter-tier dependence information. We present a technique that makes use of an integrated inter-connection dependence model to analyze cross-tier change impacts. These are then used to select affected test cases for regression testing and to identify repairable test cases for reuse, or to discard obsolete non-repairable test cases. Our empirical study shows that with this technique, the maintenance cost of the target system can be significantly reduced.","PeriodicalId":263470,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131553424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 10
Evidence-Based Analysis and Inferring Preconditions for Bug Detection 基于证据的分析和推断Bug检测的前提条件
2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Pub Date : 2007-10-22 DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362617
D. Brand, M. Buss, V. Sreedhar
{"title":"Evidence-Based Analysis and Inferring Preconditions for Bug Detection","authors":"D. Brand, M. Buss, V. Sreedhar","doi":"10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362617","url":null,"abstract":"An important part of software maintenance is fixing software errors and bugs. Static analysis based tools can tremendously help and ease software maintenance. In order to gain user acceptance, a static analysis tool for detecting bugs has to minimize the incidence of false alarms. A common cause of false alarms is the uncertainty over which inputs into a program are considered legal. In this paper we introduce evidence-based analysis to address this problem. Evidence-based analysis allows one to infer legal preconditions over inputs, without having users to explicitly specify those preconditions. We have found that the approach drastically improves the usability of such static analysis tools. In this paper we report our experience with the analysis in an industrial deployment.","PeriodicalId":263470,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance","volume":"165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131007452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
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