Paper Info
Title
The visibility of maintenance in object models: an empirical study
Abstract
This empirical study analyzes changes in C++ source code which occurred between two releases of an industrial soft ware product and compares them with entities and relations available in object-oriented modeling techniques. The comparison offers increased understanding of what changes can and cannot be described using such object models. The goals were to investigate if the object model in this particular project is either abstract and stable or detailed and sensitive to change, and whether or not changes made to the C++ source code are visible in the object model. Four metrics for characterization of change are formally defined and used, namely correctness, completeness, compliance, and visibility factor. The major finding is that even though many of the classes are changed, the majority of these changes turn out to be invisible in the object model. That is, changes made on the source code level are of a finer granularity than available in common object modeling concepts. This may explain why object models seem to be of little use in release-oriented development.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1109/ICSM.1998.738489
Bethesda, MD
Keywords
Field
DocType
object-oriented programming,software maintenance,C++ source code,completeness,compliance,correctness,industrial software product,maintenance visibility,object models,object-oriented modeling techniques,release-oriented development,source code level,visibility factor
Visibility,Object-oriented programming,Systems engineering,Method,Computer science,Source code,Correctness,Object model,Software maintenance,Empirical research
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1063-6773
0-8186-8779-7
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
11
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mikael Lindvall150.68
Magnus Runesson250.68