Paper Info
Title
Yesterday's Weather: guiding early reverse engineering efforts by summarizing the evolution of changes
Abstract
Knowing where to start reverse engineering a large software system, when no information other than the systemýs source code itself is available, is a daunting task. Having the history of the code (i.e., the versions) could be of help if this would not imply analyzing a huge amount of data. In this paper we present an approach for identifying candidate classes for reverse engineering and reengineering efforts. Our solution is based on summarizing the changes in the evolution of object-oriented software systems by defining history measurements. Our approach, named Yesterdayýs Weather, is an analysis based on the retrospective empirical observation that classes which changed the most in the recent past also suffer important changes in the near future. We apply this approach on two case studies and show how we can obtain an overview of the evolution of a system and pinpoint its classes that might change in the next versions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/ICSM.2004.1357788
ICSM
Keywords
Field
DocType
configuration management,data flow analysis,object-oriented programming,reverse engineering,Yesterdays Weather,history measurements,object-oriented programming,object-oriented software systems,program understanding,reengineering efforts,reverse engineering,software evolution,system source code
Static program analysis,Systems engineering,Software engineering,Software archaeology,Computer science,Software system,Software evolution,Software construction,Software development,Social software engineering,Software mining
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1063-6773
0-7695-2213-0
75
PageRank 
References 
Authors
4.44
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tudor Girba172940.01
Stéphane Ducasse23418243.15
Michele Lanza32197124.38