Paper Info
Title
Removing duplication from java.io: a case study using traits
Abstract
Code duplication is a serious problem with no easy solution, even in industrial-strength code. Single inheritance cannot provide for effective code reuse in all situations, and sometimes programmers are driven to duplicate code using copy and paste. A language feature called traits enables code to be shared across the inheritance hierarchy, and claims to permit the removal of most duplication. We attempted to validate this claim in a case study of the java.io library. Detecting duplication was more complex than we had imagined, but traits were indeed able to remove all that we found.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1094855.1094963
OOPSLA Companion
Keywords
Field
DocType
industrial-strength code,inheritance hierarchy,detecting duplication,io library,removing duplication,language feature,easy solution,effective code reuse,code duplication,case study,single inheritance,refactoring
Inheritance hierarchy,Duplicate code,Programming language,Code bloat,Computer science,Code reuse,Gene duplication,Java,Code refactoring
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-193-7
11
0.48
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emerson R. Murphy-hill1128474.35
Philip J. Quitslund2201.35
Andrew P. Black31566366.84